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🍽️ Foutou igname

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
Yam	1.5 to 2 kg	Yam × 2 white or yellow yam (kponan), sold by the kilo; raw flesh can irritate the skin, so peel under a thin stream of water
Cassava (can be mixed) (optional)	1 piece (about 300 g)	Cassava Note: Some people mix a little cassava into the yam for a softer dough; the all-yam version is the most common.
Smoked fish	2 pieces	Smoked pike
Fresh tomato	3	Fresh tomato
Onion	2	White onion
Ground akpi (optional)	1 tbsp	Akpi
Red palm oil	5 cl	Natural red palm oil
Fresh chili	2	Fresh chili
Seasoning cube	2 cubes	Maggi chicken 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
Water	about 2 L (cooking)	Already at home (assumed to be at home)

Preparation

Boiled yam is pounded hot like banana, but gives a firmer paste, meant for rich sauces (graine, arachide, clear). This sheet covers foutou and a light clear sauce to go with it; for a complete sauce graine or sauce arachide, see their sheets.

Recipe in English. See all 57 recipes · See the catalogue