Senegalese Cuisine & Recipes

Typical Senegalese Dishes

Appetizers & Snacks

• Akkra (Black-eyed pea fritters)
• Arachides Grillées (Roasted peanuts)
• Pastels (Vegetable & fish fritters)

Soups

• Soupokandia (Fish & okra stew)

Salads

• Avocats aux Crevettes (Salad with avocados & shrimp)
• La Salade Côte Cap Verte (Green salad with chopped eggs)

Poultry

• Poulet Yassa (Chicken with onions)
• Thiou au Poulet (Chicken Stew)

Meats

• Ceebu Yapp (Meat with rice & vegetables)
• Mafé (Meat in peanut sauce)
• Thiou a la Viande (Beef Stew)

Fish & Seafood

• Beignets de Poissons (Fish fritters)
• Dem Farci (Stuffed fish)
• Kaldou (Fish in lemon sauce over rice)
• Mboum (Fish with cabbage)
• Poisson Yassa (Fish with onions; see Poulet Yassa recipe)
• Ceebu Jen (Fish with rice & vegetables)

Breads & Grains

• Baguette (French bread)
• Couscous Mboum (Couscous with vegetables)
• Daxin (Rice gruel with meat & peanut sauce)
• Mabxal (Rice gruel with smoked fish or meat)
• Mil (Millet)
• Pain de Brousse (Village bread)
• Supukanj (Rice with okra sauce)

Sauces & Condiments

• Beuc (Bissap leaf sauce)
• Diwu Nor (Fermented butter sauce)
• Nététou (Spicy sauce from néré tree seeds)
• Yet (Fermented, dried mollusc condiment)

Desserts

• Cinq Centimes (Five-cent cookies)
• Ngalax (Dessert porridge)
• Sombii (Rice pudding)

Beverages

• Attaya (Senegalese tea)
• Demitasse (Coffee)
• Jus de Bissap (Bissap flower beverage)
• Jus de Tamarin (Tamarind beverage)