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Eru is a vegetable from Cameroon. It is a specialty of the Bayangi people, of the Manyu region in southwestern Cameroon. It is vegetable soup made up of finely shredded leaves of the eru or okok. The eru is cooked with waterleaf or spinach, palm oil, crayfish, and either smoked fish, cow skin (kanda) or beef.
Cameroon/Nigeria: A dish of grated cocoyams wrapped in cocoyam leaves and cooked in a spicy stew. [2] [3] Eru soup: Cameroon: A stew made with finely sliced Gnetum africanum (eru) leaves cooked with waterleaf and red palm oil. Usually eaten with waterfufu, a type of fufu made from fermented cassava.
Ndolé is a dish in Cameroon Maize is a staple food in Cameroon Location of Cameroon. Cameroonian cuisine is one of the most varied in Africa due to Cameroon's location on the crossroads between the north, west, and center of the continent; the diversity in ethnicity with mixture ranging from Bantus, Bamileke,Bamoun,Bamenda people and Shuwa Arabs, as well as the influence of German, French and ...
Gnetum africanum (eru or African jointfir) is a species of vine native to tropical Africa. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Though bearing leaves, the genus Gnetum are gymnosperms , related to pine and other conifers .
With the significant expansion of groundnut cultivation during the colonial period, maafe has become a popular dish across West Africa, and as far east as Cameroon. Recipes for the stew vary widely, but groundnut stew at its core is cooked with a sauce based on groundnuts , [7] the West African trinity of tomatoes, onion and chillies, and ...
The local cuisine and recipes of West Africa continue to remain deeply entrenched in the local customs and traditions, with ingredients like native rice (Oryza glaberrima), rice, fonio, millet, sorghum, Bambara groundnuts and Hausa groundnuts, black-eyed peas, brown beans, and root vegetables such as yams, cocoyams, sweet potatoes, and cassava.
Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou / ˈ f u ˌ f u / foo-foo listen ⓘ) is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine. [1] [2] It is a Twi word that originates from the Akans in Ghana.The word has been expanded to include several variations of the pounded meal found in other African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the ...
Cameroon has a rich and diverse culture made up of a mix of about 250 indigenous populations and just as many languages and customs. The country is nicknamed "Little Africa" as geographically, Cameroon consists of coastline, mountains, grass plains, forest, rainforest and desert, all of the geographical regions in Africa in one country.