Rice, stews, tagines, and slow pots that can feed a table without making the cook chase five pans.
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Algeria's grandest couscous dish featuring fluffy steamed semolina topped with lamb, merguez sausage, and a fragrant vegetabl...
Botswana's national dish — beef slow-boiled until falling apart, then shredded and pounded to a tender, savory pulled-meat te...
Burkina Faso's rich one-pot rice cooked in a meat and tomato broth with vegetables. The rice is "fat" from absorbing all the...
Cameroon's national dish — bitter leaves cooked down with ground peanuts, crayfish, and prawns into a rich, complex stew. Ear...
Cape Verde's national dish — a rich, slow-cooked stew of hominy corn, beans, and multiple meats and sausages. The "rica" (ric...
A Chadian peanut-okra stew with greens, tomato, sweet potato, and a creamy sauce made for boule or rice.
Tender chicken simmered in palm nut sauce with tomato, onion, garlic, chile, and optional okra.
Egypt's iconic street food — layers of rice, lentils, macaroni, and chickpeas topped with a spiced tomato sauce, garlicky vin...
A colorful bean, corn, okra, and tomato stew cooked with palm oil and chile in an Equatoguinean home-style frame.
Thick Swazi maize porridge served with cool tangy emasi, the simple pairing that makes the plate complete.
Ethiopian chicken and egg stew built on slow-cooked onions, berbere, tomato paste, and niter kibbeh.
Gabonese-style mustard chicken marinated with lemon, garlic, onion, chile, salt, and pepper, then roasted until golden.
Gabon's palm-nut chicken stew, simmered with onion, tomato, garlic, chile, and nyembwe sauce until rich and tender.
Gambian groundnut stew with beef, tomato, pumpkin, chile, lemon, and a creamy peanut sauce served over rice.
Ghanaian jollof rice with basmati rice steamed in a reduced tomato, onion, ginger, garlic, chile, and bay-leaf stew.
Guinean-style chicken yassa with lime, ginger, mustard, garlic, hot pepper, and plenty of slow-cooked onions.
A slow-cooked chicken stew made without any added water — the chicken and vegetables steam in their own juices with aromatic...
Kenyan firm maize ugali served with sukuma wiki, collard greens quickly cooked with onion, tomato, garlic, and oil.
Lesotho's everyday plate of firm maize papa served with moroho, leafy greens cooked with onion, tomato, oil, and salt.
Liberian torborgee, a fiery palm-oil stew of red cowpeas or lentils, bitter eggplant, dried seafood, onion, garlic, and chile.
Libyan bazin, a dense barley-flour dome surrounded by lamb tomato sauce, potatoes, eggs, and warm spices.
Malian peanut stew with lamb, beef, or chicken simmered in tomato, onion, garlic, groundnut paste, and vegetables.
Mauritanian fish rice with tomato-rich broth, fried fish, cabbage, carrots, eggplant, okra, and rice cooked in the sauce.
Moroccan chicken tagine with preserved lemons, olives, saffron, turmeric, onion, parsley, and cilantro.
Namibian potjiekos, a slow layered cast-iron stew of beef, onions, roots, vegetables, stock, and gentle fire.
Nigerien dambou, steamed millet or couscous grains mixed with moringa leaves, onion, chile, oil, and crushed peanuts.
Nigerian party jollof rice cooked in a fried tomato-pepper base with stock, thyme, curry powder, bay leaves, and a smoky bottom.
Congolese poulet à la muambé, chicken braised in palm butter sauce with tomato, garlic, chile, bay leaf, and okra.
São Toméan calulu, dried or smoked fish slowly stewed with okra, tomatoes, eggplant, greens, garlic, chile, and palm oil.
Senegalese thieboudienne, fish stuffed with rof and served over tomato rice cooked with cabbage, cassava, carrot, eggplant, o...
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Gabon, Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon
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