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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
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When to cook it

Best for weekend Ivorian tables and serious soup-and-swallow plates.. Plan on a hard cook and about 105 minutes total.

What to serve alongside it

Extra chili, smoked fish, crab, or kplo if available.

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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

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Servings 6

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4 steps 30 min prep 75 min cook 105 min total hard
1
Cook proteins
Simmer meat or seafood with onion, tomato, pepper, and stock until tender.
protein 40:00
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.

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