Poulet Moambé

Republic of the Congo · Sub-Saharan Africa

Short description: This rich chicken dish gets its deep color and body from palm-nut sauce rather than dairy or nuts.
Ingredients: Chicken cooked with palm butter or palm-nut sauce, onion, garlic, tomato, chile, rice, and cassava leaves.
Cultural note: The sauce is part of a wider river-basin cooking tradition, with household versions varying in heat, greens, and starch.
Common misconception: It is not a peanut stew; the defining sauce comes from palm fruit.

image credit

creator:: Brigade Piron
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:: Downloaded from a Wikimedia Commons thumbnail, resized/re-encoded for Gochizu.