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Cameroon Recipes

This Central Africa country hub organizes 7 Cameroon recipes from the AfroKitchen atlas across main dish, stew, side, and recipe. Use it to compare dishes, cooking time, difficulty, and practical recipe links without leaving the country page. Good starting points include Koki Beans, Ndolé, and Mbongo Tchobi. The stored recipes often use ingredients such as salt, garlic, hot pepper, and onion.

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Koki Beans, Ndolé, and Mbongo Tchobi

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Koki Beans recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Side Koki Beans Black-eyed peas blended into a smooth paste with palm oil and spices, then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed into a savo... Time90 min ServingsServes 8 DifficultyMedium DietVegetarian RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Ndolé recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Stew Ndolé Cameroon's national dish — bitter leaves cooked down with ground peanuts, crayfish, and prawns into a rich, complex stew. E... Time90 min ServingsServes 6 DifficultyHard DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Mbongo Tchobi recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Recipe Mbongo Tchobi Cameroonian Bassa black stew made with fish, burnt mbongo spice, tomato, onion, and aromatic peppers. Time60 min ServingsServes 5 DifficultyMedium DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Eru recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Stew Eru A hearty stew of shredded eru leaves and waterleaf cooked with palm oil, smoked fish, and cow skin. A signature dish of the... Time70 min ServingsServes 6 DifficultyMedium DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe
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Main dish recipes from Cameroon (3) Stew recipes from Cameroon (2) Side recipes from Cameroon (1) Recipe recipes from Cameroon (1)
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Koki Beans recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Side Koki Beans Black-eyed peas blended into a smooth paste with palm oil and spices, then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed into a savo... Time90 min ServingsServes 8 DifficultyMedium DietVegetarian RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Ndolé recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Stew Ndolé Cameroon's national dish — bitter leaves cooked down with ground peanuts, crayfish, and prawns into a rich, complex stew. E... Time90 min ServingsServes 6 DifficultyHard DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Kwacoco Bible recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Main dish Kwacoco Bible Cameroonian grated cocoyam steamed with greens, smoked fish, palm oil, and spices in leaf packets. Time125 min ServingsServes 8 DifficultyHard DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Achu and Yellow Soup recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Main dish Achu and Yellow Soup Cameroonian pounded cocoyam served with yellow palm-oil soup, kanwa, spices, meat, and fish. Time120 min ServingsServes 6 DifficultyHard DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Poulet DG recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Main dish Poulet DG Cameroonian chicken with fried plantains, carrots, green beans, peppers, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and herbs. Time115 min ServingsServes 6 DifficultyMedium DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Eru recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Stew Eru A hearty stew of shredded eru leaves and waterleaf cooked with palm oil, smoked fish, and cow skin. A signature dish of the... Time70 min ServingsServes 6 DifficultyMedium DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe Mbongo Tchobi recipe from Cameroon Cameroon Recipe Mbongo Tchobi Cameroonian Bassa black stew made with fish, burnt mbongo spice, tomato, onion, and aromatic peppers. Time60 min ServingsServes 5 DifficultyMedium DietGluten Free RegionCentral Africa Open recipe

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bitter leavesgroundnuteru leaveswaterleafpalm oilplantain leafy stew balancingbanana-leaf steaminggroundnut thickeningparty stir-fry
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2 dishes

Leafy stew table

Ndole, eru, waterleaf, groundnut, smoked fish, and bitter-leaf depth.

NdoléEru
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Cameroon national table

A structured Cameroon dish in the AfroKitchen archive.

Achu and Yellow Soup
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Cooking Cameroon from the AfroKitchen atlas

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What are popular dishes from Cameroon?

Popular starting points in this AfroKitchen country hub include Koki Beans, Ndolé, Mbongo Tchobi, Eru, and Poulet DG.

What ingredients are common in Cameroon cooking?

In the stored Cameroon recipes, common ingredients include salt, garlic, hot pepper, onion, palm oil, banana leaves, dried crayfish, and red palm oil.

What can I cook first from Cameroon?

Mbongo Tchobi is a practical first pick from this hub at about 60 minutes.