Village Food of West Africa Abidjan Ivory Coast | Brown and Strong

palm oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Olive oil offers a healthier fat option.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: canned beans

Tofu provides a plant-based protein alternative.

egusi seeds

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds can mimic the texture and flavor.

jollof rice

🥗Healthier: quinoa

💰Cheaper: white rice

Quinoa is a healthier grain alternative.

Introduce Marian, who has been working for 5-6 months.

Explain the plan to cook African food at home with Marian's help.

Show the mutton cut into pieces, along with onion, tomato, capsicum, and plantain.

Put mutton in a pressure cooker and add salt, then close it to cook for 30 minutes.

Heat water for couscous on the gas stove.

Cut butter to add to the couscous once the water is hot.

Mix the hot water with butter and salt in a bowl for the couscous preparation.

Check on the mutton, which is almost ready, and mix water with the butter for couscous.

Prepare to fry the plantain (alloco) by adding oil to a pan and heating it.

Add salt to the plantain before frying it in hot oil until soft.

Remove water from the cooked mutton and prepare to fry it in oil.

Add onions and tomatoes to the pan with the mutton.

Add capsicum, pepper, and maggi spice to the mutton mixture for flavor.

Add garlic to the mutton for additional flavor and check for salt.

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