1
Cook proteins
Simmer meat or seafood with onion, tomato, pepper, and stock until tender.
protein
40:00
Ivory Coast | Soup
Placali Sauce Kope
Ivorian fermented cassava placali served with slippery okra sauce, crab, smoked fish, meat, and chile.
Country
Ivory Coast
Region
West Africa
Time
105 min
Serves
6
Level
hard
Recipe overview
What to know before you cook
Placali and sauce kope is texture food at its finest: sour-soft cassava paste meeting okra's draw and the deep savor of crab, smoked fish, and meat.
What the dish tastes like
Ivorian fermented cassava placali served with slippery okra sauce, crab, smoked fish, meat, and chile.
When to cook it
Best for Best for weekend Ivorian tables and serious soup-and-swallow plates., with a hard cooking level and about 105 minutes total.
What to serve alongside it
Extra chili, smoked fish, crab, or kplo if available.
Regional lane
Ivory Coast national table. A verified Ivory Coast dish in the AfroKitchen archive.
Chef watch-outs
- Stopping the base before the pepper, onion, or spice edge has mellowed.
- Thinning the pot before the body of the soup or stew has developed.
- Rushing the rest or fermentation period.
How you know it is ready
- The sauce should coat the spoon and taste rounded, not watery or raw.
- The bread or batter should smell pleasantly fermented, toasted, or nutty rather than floury.
- The aroma should smell rounded rather than raw or sharp.
Pantry lane
attieke, plantain, palm oil, scotch bonnet, eggplant
Recipe photos
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Chef board
Build the table around Placali Sauce Kope
Extra chili, smoked fish, crab, or kplo if available.
Best route from here
Ivory Coast national table
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How to cook it
Step-by-step method
Keep the rhythm calm, watch the texture, and adjust seasoning at the end.
4 steps
105 min total
hard
2
Add okra
Stir in grated okra and palm oil, then simmer until the sauce becomes glossy and lightly stretchy.
okra
15:00
3
Cook placali
Whisk cassava dough with water over medium heat, stirring constantly until translucent and elastic.
placali
18:00
4
Serve hot
Shape placali and serve with sauce kope spooned around it.
plate
03:00
Sauce kope may include crab, snails, beef feet, smoked fish, or only fish; placali can be bought ready-made or cooked from fermented cassava dough.