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Well I confess, I searched for the translation on the Internet. However, I did 1 year there, but I guess it wasn’t enough!
In short... this article will not be in Wolof so let’s continue!
As you already know, this is a “food” article.
It’s nice, it’s hot, what better than a little exoticism ? You guessed it, we’re taking off for a Senegalese culinary trip 🇸🇳
As I told you earlier, I did a year in Senegal, while my father was transferred there (I was born there too but that I don't assume 🙄), so I am legitimate to talk about Senegalese food and I already tell you, it's ecstasy in the mouth 🤤
Enough dithering, let’s start hostilities!
I’m not going to quote everything otherwise we’ll sleep on this article (and anyway, I have other plans) but I’ll give you the most reputable ones.
ENTRIES
Let’s start at the beginning with pastels !
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Honestly, I don’t know exactly what nationality this dish is, but what I do know is that in Dakar, I ate one of the best "pastels" of my life.
It’s an African salted doughnut filled with meat or fish (some make it with cheese but for me, it’s like an abomination, a blasphemy…), often accompanied by a small sauce made with onions, tomatoes, peppers and spices.
I would have done it to you, but i'm lazy...
DISHES
I could name so many, but I told you, I don’t want to sleep here.
The first plate and the base of the bases for me, the Thieb.
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A national dish so loooong to prepare but so goooood.
I can’t give you the exact sequence because I don’t know how to prepare it, but I can tell you that it’s a dish made from pickled rice, vegetables, eggs, meat or fish, or all three at the same time.
There are several different versions: thiéboudiène, thiébou yapp, thiébou wekh…
And once again, it’s a slaughter.
Let’s move on to another, equally important dish, chicken yassa.
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This dish with chicken, onions, olives, mustards and spices seems very easy to prepare and yet the dosage must be very well mastered for it to be delectable.
With the accompaniment of your choice, but it's very often rice.
I had to offer only 2 dishes but I could not leave without listing the dibi.
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How do you explain that ? A stir-fry of marinated meats with condiments.
This dish is eaten with everything, it’s meat after all but it's soooo good…
(God bless the person who had the idea to put seasonings on a meat and cook it 😌… yes I am a pure carnivore… sorry vegetarians…)
DESSERTS
I confess that when I go to Africa, I don't complicate my life in terms of desserts; I just enjoy the richness of fruits. But I know one who may perhaps please you (personally, I don’t like but to everyone his taste): thiakry.
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This one too, I’m not sure how to explain it. It’s a milky dessert. We make a mixture of yogurt, cottage cheese and sweetened condensed milk, which we beat vigorously with a whisk, and to which we add fine millet grains, cooked beforehand.
Me, I take it before we put millet grains in it, because that milk, my gooood!
Otherwise, I don’t know if we can put it in desserts but green cherries with salt and pepper, so gooood too !
DRINKS
Come on ! Let’s finish by quenching our thirst a little to get all this down.
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Well, the first drink I’m going to tell you about, you’re supposed to know it already. Otherwise, stop it and read me the article "Welcome to Ivory Coast".
So I come back to my drink: The bissap. This juice made from hibiscus, so sweet.
And to conclude this article, I finish with the bouye juice. A juice simply based on baobab and spices. Don’t ask me how we do it, I don’t know 🤷🏾♀️, it’s just a matter of talking about it.
Oh la la, like a desire to go back to Dakar ✈️
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