Burkinabé cuisine

Common dishes

A plate of fufu (right) accompanied with peanut soup

Location of Burkina Faso

• corn. The dough is mixed with a sauce made from vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, sumbala and carrots. The resulting stew is sometimes supplemented by a piece of meat like mutton or goat.^[3]
• French green beans
• Fufu
• Poulet Bicyclette, a grilled chicken dish common across West Africa.^[3]
• Ragout d'Igname
• Riz gras, rice cooked with onions, tomatoes and meat.^[3][2]
• Riz Sauce
• Sauce gombo, a sauce made with okra.
• Brochettes

Restaurants generally serve Burkinabé dishes alongside those of neighbouring countries. Foreign dishes include a fish or meat stew called kédjénou from Côte d'Ivoire and poulet yassa, a chicken stew with lemon and onions from Senegal.^[3]

Common beverages

• Bissap/Bisap, a sour-tasting drink made from Roselle (Bissap) flowers,^[4] and sweetened with sugar
• Degue, a drink made from pearl millet and yogurt
• [5]
• Toédo, Baobab fruit
• Yamaku, Ginger
• Zoomkoom, a soft drink made from millet flour, ginger, lemon juice and tamarind^[1]

See also

• Togolese cuisine
• List of African cuisines

The fruit of the African Baobab tree

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b}
2. ^ ^{a b c}
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Marchais, p. 99
4. ^ Grubben, p.321
5. ^ Steinkraus, p.273

References

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