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🍽️ Foutou banane plantain

Quantities for 4 people, from the Marché Facile assistant’s recipe sheet. Ingredients link to product pages in the catalogue — the day’s price is on the product page, never frozen here.

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity (4 people)	In the catalogue
Very ripe plantain	8 bananas	Plantain × 2 sold in lots of 4
Cassava (traditional mix) (optional)	2 pieces	Cassava × 2 Note: Banana foutou is often pounded with a little cassava; the all-plantain version is just as common.
Smoked fish	2 pieces	Smoked pike
Fresh tomato	3	Fresh tomato sold by the kilo (1 kg = about 8 to 10 tomatoes): the quantity bought often exceeds what the dish needs Substitution: Tomato paste (2 tbsp)
Onion	2	White onion sold by the kilo (about 6 to 8 onions per kilo)
Ground akpi (optional)	1 tbsp	Akpi
Red palm oil	5 cl	Natural red palm oil sold in 1 L bottles: the quantity bought exceeds what the dish needs
Fresh chili	2	Fresh chili
Seasoning cube	2 cubes	Maggi Etoile cube sold in packs of 10 cubes, the smallest size in the catalogue; the rest keeps for your next sauces
Salt	1 tsp	Fine iodized salt
Yam (yam foutou variation) (optional)	2 kg	Yam × 2

Preparation

Foutou is pounded hot as soon as the bananas are cooked. This sheet covers foutou and a light clear sauce to go with it; for sauce graine, see the sauce graine sheet (served with yam).

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