Chart of African Carbohydrates/Starches
Here's the chart I mentioned that I put together to try and organize my understanding of some of the most common starches/carbohydrates I've run across. I'm sure there are many omissions and maybe some errors, so please help me to update and expand this listing.
(from "Food and Foodways (see July 18, 2007 posting)," in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Popular Cutlure, Sub-Saharan Africa Vol. 5, p. 101-2, © Fran Osseo-Asare, 2007) | |||
Food Name | Region | Country | Typical Ingredients |
kenkey/dokono | West Africa | Ghana | fermented corn dough steamed in corn husks or banana leaves |
banku | “ | Ghana | fermented corn dough, stirred and cooked (soft) |
koko/akasa | “ | Ghana | fermented corn dough porridge (thin) |
tuo zaafe | “ | Ghana | thick sorghum or millet porridge |
ogi | “ | Nigeria | fermented porridge from sorghum, millet, and/or maize |
gari (farine de manioc) | West/Central Africa | various | dried, grated, fermented cassava meal |
fufu (1) (in Nigeria, also called iyan or pounded yam) | West/Central Africa) | especially Ghana/Nigeria, Cameroon | peeled, boiled, pounded stiff but elastic dumpling, generally not chewed (yam, cassava, cocoyam, ripe or green plantain, single or combination) |
fufu (2) | Central Africa | especially DRC, CAR, Cameroon | a stiff porridge made from white corn flour, cassava flour, or a combination (similar to ugali, sadza, pap, nsima) |
lafun | West Africa | Nigeria | a fibrous, powdery form of fermented cassava similar to, but coarser than, fufu |
attiéké | West Africa | Côte D’Ivoire | steamed fermented cassava granules |
miondo, (myondo) bobolo, bâton de manioc | “ | Cameroon | (miondo is a Duala word, bobolo is Ewando) cassava roots soaked and fermented, peeled, mashed, drained, ground, wrapped in banana leaves and boiled or steamed |
chickwangue (chicouangue) | Central | Congo, Gabon | similar to miondo |
bidia | “ | DRC, CAR | (Tshiluba) See fufu (2) |
injera (enjera) | Eastern Africa | Ethiopia/Eritrea | fermented crepe/pancake commonly made from a type of millet called tef (teff), but also with sorghum or wheat |
canjeero | “ | Somalia | see injera |
obusera | “ | Uganda | fermented millet porridge |
uji | “ | Kenya, Tanzania | Swahili word for porridge, thin to thick, made from maize, millet,and/or sorghum |
ugali | “ | Various, esp. Kenya, Tanzania | Swahili word for a thick porridge (or dumpling) commonly made from cornmeal, but also made with cassava flour |
posho | “ | Uganda | see ugali |
atapa (atap) | “ | Uganda | ground dried sweet potato porridge, with ground millet/cassava and flavorings |
pap | Southern Africa | South Africa | Dutch word for porridge made from cornmeal flour or other staple grain |
bogobe | “ | Botswana | see pap |
sadza | “ | Zimbabwe | stiff porridge (or dumpling) made from white field corn flour or red millet flour |
nsima/nhsima | “ | Zambia, Malawi | see pap |
xima | “ | Mozambique | corn pap (see pap) |
amarhewu | “ | South Africa | thin porridge made from slightly fermented cornmeal |
putu/phutu | “ | South Africa | (Zulu) a crumbly version of pap (see pap) |
umphokoqo | “ | South Africa | (Xhosa) a crumbly version of pap (see pap) |
2 Comments:
Fufu is not the same as Iyan. They are entirely different...
I agree that the 2 are different. However, they are both prepared from boiled, pounded yam. In Ghana the yam would be quite elastic, whereas the pounded yam I've had is much softer. In what other way do you think they are different (I'm thinking of the yam fufu pounded in the North of Ghana--there are also many different kinds of "fufu.")?
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