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Dambou

Name: Dambou
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 250g Corn grits; 1 bunch Spinach; 1 Onion; 50g Peanuts; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 Chili pepper; 1/2 tsp Salt; 150ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Steamed coarse cornmeal mixed with moringa leaves — a Nigerien steamed dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dambou is a dish of the Hausa people of Niger and northern Nigeria: coarse maize, millet, or rice meal is steamed, mixed with moringa leaves, onion, and peanuts, and steamed again. Fluffy and separate, it's eaten with chili or peanut oil.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Nigerien village kitchen, green-flecked grains come out of the steamer in a cloud of steam and are heaped on a platter.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 250g
Spinach 1 bunch
Onion 1
Peanuts 50g
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Chili pepper 1
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 150ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Sprinkle the maize meal with water, mix, and let stand 15 minutes to moisten.
Steam for 15 minutes.
Blanch and finely chop the spinach and mince the onion.
Mix the vegetables, crushed peanuts, salt, and oil into the steamed meal and steam another 10 minutes.
Serve with chopped chili.

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