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Akoumé

Name: Akoumé
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Togo
Ingredients: 300g Corn grits; 2 tbsp Plain yogurt; 1L Water; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented maize meal worked stiff in boiling water — Togo's staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Akoumé is Togo's staple: lightly fermented maize meal worked stiff in boiling water into a faintly sour paste. It's rolled by hand and eaten with all kinds of sauces — okra, tomato, or adémé (jute leaf sauce). It appears daily on Togolese tables.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Togolese village home, white paste is shaped into rounds and eaten by hand with a stretchy green sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 300g
Plain yogurt 2 tbsp
Water 1L
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix 100g of the maize meal with 300ml water, stir in the yogurt, and leave overnight at room temperature.
Bring the remaining water and salt to a boil, add the fermented mixture, and simmer 10 minutes.
Add the remaining maize meal a little at a time, working vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Work on low for 10 minutes.
Shape into rounds using a wet bowl.

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