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Marché Facile.comThe taste of home, delivered to your loved ones
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.
| Ingredient | Quantity (4 people) | In the catalogue |
|---|---|---|
| Staple starch — very ripe plantain (variations: potatoes or maize) | 10 to 12 fingers (about 2 kg) | Plantain × 3 Note: BASE: very ripe plantain (yellow skin speckled with black). VARIANTS that replace the plantain, never in addition: pilé pommes = 2 kg of potatoes; pilé maïs = 500 g of maize (grains or flour); pilé banane (banane cochon) = the same plantain banana, chosen green and firm. |
| Dried red beans | 500 g | Red beans (bulk) sold loose (500 g for the red, 300 g for the white); soaking the day before recommended Note: Red beans are the most common; black beans are also widely used but only exist in the catalogue under the loose red/white labels. |
| Red palm oil | 20 cl | Natural red palm oil sold in 1 L bottles: the quantity bought exceeds what the dish needs, the rest goes into other sauces |
| Onion | 2 | White onion |
| Fresh chili | 2 | Fresh chili |
| Seasoning cube (optional) | 1 cube | 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 (beans then plantain) | Already at home (assumed to be at home) |
Cameroonian pilé: a starchy food pounded in a mortar with beans, bound with red oil heated with onion and chilli pepper. The most common base is very ripe plantain and red beans. The variants change only the starchy food: pilé pommes (potatoes instead of plantain), pilé banane, called banane cochon (green plantains, same product chosen green), pilé maïs (maize instead of plantain), and banane malaxée (same ingredients, with plantain and beans cooked together without pounding finely). Soaking the beans the day before saves considerable cooking time. One school adds ground dried shrimp to the hot oil; purists refuse it. It is a matter of taste, not the base.
Recipe in English. See all 57 recipes · See the catalogue