Foods and dishes

Togolese style is often a combination of African, French, and German influences.^[2][8] The cuisine has many sauces and different types of pâté, many of which are made from eggplant, tomato, spinach, and fish.^[2] The cuisine combines these foods with various types of meat and vegetables to create flavorful dishes.^[2] Roadside food stands sell foods such as groundnuts, omelettes, brochettes, corn-on-the-cob, and cooked prawns.

Additional foods and dishes include:

• Agouti, known as ‘grasscutters’.
• Baguette bread
• Chili peppers are often used as a spice
• Fufu is very common,^[2] and is made from peeled and boiled yams which are then pounded with a pestle until reaching a dough consistency. Fufu is typically accompanied with sauces.
• Select goat meat portions.
• Koklo meme, grilled chicken with a chili sauce.^[2]
• Kokonte is a pâté made from cassava
• Pâté, a commonly consumed cornmeal cake.^[8]
• Peanuts
• Riz sauce d’arachide, a rice dish made with groundnut sauce.^[2]
• Akume which is a solid food prepared from ground maize served with a side of sauce usually okra soup.

Beverages

• Red wine^[8]
• American-style beer
• White wine^[8]

See also

• Benin cuisine
• Burkinabé cuisine
• Ghanaian cuisine
• List of African cuisines

References