Cameroon

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Cameroon

5 recipes

Illustrative rendering of Cameroonian Kumkum as round dried cassava balls described in IITA references; color and surface texture are interpretive because exact appearance is not specified.
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Kumkum

Kumkum is a Cameroonian fermented-cassava preparation described as balls dried over a fireplace and stored or milled into flour. Sources also describe a sun-dried market form; they give no Kumkum-specific safety endpoint.

Cameroon · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative serving of off-white eba, molded into a soft dome on a plain plate.

Eba

Eba is a West African dish of cooked gari, stirred into hot water until it forms a thick paste. It is a cooking stage with no new fermentation, served with soup.

Nigeria
Grains and starches
Sliced golden-orange Mintoumba cassava cake on a ceramic plate, with a leafy wrapper behind it.
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Mintoumba

Cameroonian fermented fresh cassava mixed with red palm oil, wrapped and steamed as a cake.

Cameroon · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished Maroua Cochette, shown in a plain glass; the cited study shows opaque drink in sample bottles.
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Maroua cochette from cooked rice and malt

An alcoholic rice beer from Maroua, Cameroon, brewed from boiled rice flour with some malt and started with chai or bili-bili.

Maroua · Traditional method
· Drinks
Cloudy ochre-brown malted-sorghum bili-bili with a soft natural foam in an unpainted calabash bowl.
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Maroua bitter bili-bili from malted sorghum

An alcoholic, opaque and bitter sorghum beer from Maroua, northern Cameroon, made from malted sorghum and fermented with a chai starter.

Maroua · Traditional method
· Drinks