Region
What Middle Africa cooks with
23 ingredients from the guide appear in the 12 catalogued dishes of Middle Africa, in Africa. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
A–Z
Every ingredient in Middle Africa’s dishes

Apricot
1 dish here

Beef
1 dish here

Cassava root
1 dish here

Chicken
1 dish here

Cocoyam
1 dish here

Cooking banana
1 dish here

Crayfish
1 dish here

Curry powder
1 dish here

Edible mushroom
1 dish here

Garlic
2 dishes here

Goat meat
1 dish here

Ground beef
1 dish here

Lemon juice
1 dish here

Onion
1 dish here

Palm oil
5 dishes here

Scallion
1 dish here

Sweet potato
1 dish here

Table salt
2 dishes here

Taro
1 dish here

Tomato
1 dish here

Tomato sauce
1 dish here

Vegetable oil
1 dish here

Water
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (23)
Palm oil: DromoTetteh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Apricot: MatthiasKabel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cassava root: David Monniaux · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cocoyam: Dorcas Atule · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cooking banana: Vis M · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crayfish: JIP · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Goat meat: Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ground beef: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lemon juice: Ovinus Real · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Scallion: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Sweet potato: Llez · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Taro: Susan Slater · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tomato sauce: Dennis Klein klein2 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vegetable oil: Netojinn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons