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Agidi

Name: Agidi
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Sierra Leone
Ingredients: 150g Cornstarch; 2 tbsp Plain yogurt; 700ml Water; A pinch Salt; To taste Banana Leaves

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Corn starch cooked into a paste, wrapped in leaves, and set — a Sierra Leonean staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Agidi is a dish of Sierra Leone's Krio people: starch from fermented corn is cooked into a paste, wrapped in leaves, and left to cool and set. Faintly sour with a smooth, slippery texture, it's eaten with stews or chili sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Freetown market, white corn paste wrapped in leaves is piled up and sold beside a stew stall.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Cornstarch 150g
Plain yogurt 2 tbsp
Water 700ml
Salt A pinch
Banana Leaves To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the cornstarch in 200ml water, mix in the yogurt, and leave overnight.
Bring the remaining water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Add the starch mixture while stirring and work until translucent.
Divide into portions and wrap in banana leaves.
Cool to set.

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