Cuisine of Togo is a mix of the cooking styles of the colonial past of Togo. Spicy colorful food boiled in porridge style and accompanied by sauces mostly comprises Cuisine of Togo.
Maize is the most widely eaten food is Togo. The maize is ground into flour and mixed with water to make a porridge called pates or akume. Pates is always served with sauces which are thick stews usually made of vegetables, like okra and ademe and spinach.
Sauces are also made with meat or are most often smoked fish. Different variety of other meats is eaten. This includes fish heads, cow skin and large bush rats, known locally as ‘grass cutters’ or agouti.
Fufu is another very famous Togolese food. The preparation of fufu is a hard, laborious task done by women. First yams are washed, peeled and cut to pieces. Next they are boiled until soft. This is followed by pounding the cooked yams in a pestle with thick sticks until the yam becomes similar to that of a baker’s dough. This is mainly accomplished by a couple of women. The noise made by the pounding of fufu is one of the most familiar sounds in Togo. Like pates, fufu is eaten with sauces. Groundnut, goat and palm nut are popular flavors.
Other crops grown in Togo get a similar treatment. Cassava is milled into flour and shaped into a pate called a kokonte. In the dryer areas, sorghum and millet are grown and made into porridge or pates.
The country’s colonial legacy has by and large shaped the eating and drinking habits of Togo. German-style beer is very popular with the people. Baguettes are preferred over loaves as breakfast dishes.
Most Togolese people prefer eating at home. Eating in roadside stall is quite popular. Roadside stalls sell corn on the cob, peanuts, omelettes, brochettes and cooked prawns. There are various types of restaurants in the main towns.
The 2 most popular dishes in Togo which you must unfailingly taste are Akume with Ademe sauce and Fufu and groundnut sauce with chicken
Togolese cuisine is renowned throughout Africa. Nowadays, Togolese chefs are found working in restaurants and hotels all over West Africa.
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