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🍽️ Watché / atassi (riz et haricot cuits ensemble) et ses variantes

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
Haricots secs rouges	300 g	Haricot Rouge VRAC sold loose (500 g for the red); soaking the day before recommended
Riz	600 g	RIZ Rizière sold in 5 kg bags: the quantity bought exceeds what the dish needs
Poisson frais à frire (accompagnement)	800 g	Maquereau Frais Note: Fried fish almost always goes with watché; it is fried separately while the rice cooks.
Tomate fraîche (sauce)	3	Tomate Fraiche
Concentré de tomate (sauce) (optional)	2 tbsp	Concentre DE Tomate PATE Alyssa
Oignon	2	Oignon Blanc
Piment frais	2	Piment Frais
Huile (sauce et friture)	15 cl	Huile DE Tournesol AYA Note: Neutral oil for frying the fish; a drizzle of red oil over the finished rice is the Beninese habit.
Cube d'assaisonnement	2 cubes	CUBE Maggi Poulet sold in packs of 10 cubes, the smallest size in the catalogue; the rest keeps for your next sauces
Sel	1 tsp	GROS SEL FIN IODE
Tiges rouges ou feuilles de sorgho / mil (coloration traditionnelle) (optional)	1 handful	Already at home (assumed to be at home) Note: Not in the catalogue (flagged during prospection): they colour the rice reddish-brown; without them, the dish tastes the same but is paler.
Eau	about 1.5 L	Already at home (assumed to be at home)

Preparation

Rice and red beans cooked in the same pot (the beans go in first, the rice joins them), served with a spicy tomato-onion sauce, fried fish and a drizzle of oil. This is atassi from Benin and Togo and watché from Ghana (waakye). In the traditional version, red stalks (atassi) or sorghum or millet leaves (waakye) colour the rice during cooking; these leaves are not in the catalogue, so the dish remains itself without them, just without the colour. In Ghana, the plate is often completed with a hard-boiled egg and spaghetti: that is a side-dish variant, not the base, so add them to the basket only if the customer asks for the full Ghanaian version.

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