Region
What Western Africa cooks with
74 ingredients from the guide appear in the 92 catalogued dishes of Western Africa, in Africa. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
Signature
Most typical of Western Africa
A–Z
Every ingredient in Western Africa’s dishes
Balsamic vinegar
1 dish here
Beef
14 dishes here
Black bean
1 dish here
Black pepper
6 dishes here
Cabbage
1 dish here
Calabash nutmeg
3 dishes here
Carob
1 dish here
Carrot
3 dishes here
Cassava flour
3 dishes here
Cassava root
8 dishes here
Catfish
1 dish here
Cayenne pepper
3 dishes here
Chamomile
1 dish here
Chicken
3 dishes here
Chili pepper
4 dishes here
Coconut
1 dish here
Coconut milk
1 dish here
Cocoyam
1 dish here
Common bean
1 dish here
Cooking banana
6 dishes here
Cornmeal
4 dishes here
Couscous
1 dish here
Cowpea
1 dish here
Crayfish
16 dishes here
Cucumber
1 dish here
Egg
2 dishes here
Fish
1 dish here
Flour
2 dishes here
Garlic
7 dishes here
Garri
1 dish here
Ginger
2 dishes here
Goat meat
3 dishes here
Honey
1 dish here
Jasmine rice
1 dish here
Lamb meat
1 dish here
Lettuce
1 dish here
Lima bean
1 dish here
Maize
1 dish here
Maize flour
1 dish here
Milk
1 dish here
Millet
2 dishes here
Moringa
2 dishes here
Mutton
1 dish here
Nutmeg
1 dish here
Okra
2 dishes here
Onion
31 dishes here
Palm oil
34 dishes here
Parsley
1 dish here
Pea
1 dish here
Peanut
2 dishes here
Peanut butter
1 dish here
Peanut oil
2 dishes here
Pumpkin
2 dishes here
Red bean paste
1 dish here
Rice
5 dishes here
Scallion
3 dishes here
Shrimp
1 dish here
Smoked fish
1 dish here
Sorghum grain
1 dish here
Sour cream
1 dish here
Stockfish
2 dishes here
Sugar
2 dishes here
Table salt
38 dishes here
Tomato
1 dish here
Tomato paste
1 dish here
Tripe
1 dish here
Tuna
1 dish here
Vegetable oil
5 dishes here
Vermicelli
1 dish here
Vinegar
1 dish here
Water
11 dishes here
Welsh onion
1 dish here
Wheat
1 dish here
Yam
11 dishes here
Photo credits for this page (74)
Palm oil: DromoTetteh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crayfish: JIP · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yam: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Calabash nutmeg: User:Slashme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cooking banana: Vis M · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cassava flour: Hajia Hijjah · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cornmeal: Popo le Chien · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Moringa: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Stockfish: Havang(nl) · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Okra: Aravind Sivaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Balsamic vinegar: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Black bean: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cabbage: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carob: Nevit Dilmen ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carrot: MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cassava root: David Monniaux · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Catfish: Gary J. Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cayenne pepper: Alabama Extension · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chamomile: Holly Victoria Norval · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut: Tom Ek · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cocoyam: Dorcas Atule · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Common bean: Jay Superthato · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Couscous: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cowpea: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cucumber: Nikodem Nijaki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fish: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flour: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garri: Hadeou Jacob · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ginger: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Goat meat: Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Jasmine rice: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lamb meat: Pujanak · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Lettuce: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lima bean: Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Maize: Tanvir Rahat · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Maize flour: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Millet: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mutton: Tvabutzku1234 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Nutmeg: Herusutimbul · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Parsley: Bi-frie ( talk ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pea: David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut oil: KISUMAR123 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkin: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Red bean paste: Midori · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Scallion: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Shrimp: Gillfoto · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Smoked fish: Yemi festus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sorghum grain: Salil Kumar Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tomato paste: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tripe: Biskuit from Atlanta, GA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tuna: George Alexander Ishida Newman from Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vegetable oil: Netojinn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vermicelli: سونھن راڻي · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vinegar: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Welsh onion: Miyuki Meinaka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat: User:Bluemoose · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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