DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Akoho Voanio
Coconut chicken and rice accompanied by a separate Malagasy tomato salad.

About Akoho Voanio
MadaMagazine names this meal akoho voanio amin’ny lasary voatabia: coconut chicken with rice and Malagasy tomato salad. Its published version uses chicken breast in a tomato-and-coconut sauce, with the salad served separately.
Onion, garlic and ginger flavour the sauce, together with saffron, sugar, salt and pepper. The salad combines fresh tomato, onion, spring onion and parsley with oil, lemon juice, garlic and ginger.
Chicken strips sit in the coconut sauce beside rice, while the diced salad fills a small bowl. Optional chopped cashews add a nut topping within the sauce in this particular rendition.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Cashew.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Akoho Voanio
MadaMagazine’s Malagasy akoho voanio with lasary voatabia.
- Chicken breastProtein · Coconut chicken
- OnionAromatic · Coconut chicken
- GarlicAromatic · Coconut chicken
- TomatoesBase · Coconut chicken
- GingerAromatic · Coconut chicken
- Coconut milkLiquid · Coconut chicken
- PepperSeasoning · Chicken and saladIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning · Chicken and salad
- SaffronSeasoning · Coconut chicken
- SugarSweetener · Coconut chicken
- Cashew nutsFinish · Coconut chicken · Optional
- OilCooking medium · Coconut chicken
- RiceBase · Rice
- TomatoesBase · Lasary voatabia
- OnionAromatic · Lasary voatabia
- Spring onionAromatic · Lasary voatabia
- ParsleyAromatic · Lasary voatabia
- OilLiquid · Lasary voatabia
- GingerAromatic · Lasary voatabia
- Lemon juiceSeasoning · Lasary voatabia
- GarlicAromatic · Lasary voatabia
- WaterLiquid · Rice and tomato contacts
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Chicken breast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Peeled sauce tomatoes distinct from salad portion.
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Can formula unspecified.
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Generic pepper, exact type unspecified.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Saffron: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source exact spice, not turmeric.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cashew nuts (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Cashew source-confirmed. Explicit optional chopped source branch.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Generic oil, exact type unspecified.
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Variety unspecified.
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Raw diced portion separate from sauce tomatoes.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Spring onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Distinct raw salad oil; type unspecified.
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit rice cooking plus tomato scald/cold-transfer; contact water not claimed incorporated.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Madagascar
- MadagascarCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Malagasy Cuisine
- Malagasy CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.