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🍽️ Sauce graine

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
Palm nuts (graine)	1 kg	Graine these are fresh palm nuts, sold by the kilo Substitution: Red palm oil (simplified sauce-graine, different taste — to be flagged)
Beef	800 g	Fresh sliced beef
Smoked fish	2 pieces	Smoked pike
Onion	2 (about 250 g)	White onion sold by the kilo (about 6 to 8 onions per kilo)
Fresh tomato	3 (about 300 g)	African tomato fresh tomato sizes in the catalogue: 500 g (African tomato — closest to what the dish needs) and 1 kg (fresh tomato); prefer the 500 g size; a 5 kg pack never suits this dish Substitution: Tomato paste (2 tbsp)
Fresh chili	2 to 4	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
Akpi (optional)	1 tbsp ground	Akpi
Rice or yam (side)	800 g of rice or 1 kg of yam	Rizière rice
Water	about 1.5 L	Already at home (assumed to be at home)

Preparation

Sauce of pounded palm nuts, served with rice or yam foutou. Fresh graine is pounded (or pressed): allow preparation time.

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