DISH RESEARCH · Rice dish
Atassi
Beninese rice and cowpeas cooked together with gari, dja and seasoned chicken.
About Atassi
Karelle Vignon-Vullierme presents atassi as one of her favourite Beninese dishes. This version selects the beige cowpea option and keeps the characteristic rice cooked in the beans’ own cooking liquid.
Salt seasons the rice and beans. The accompanying chicken carries pepper, garlic powder and mustard, while dja contributes a separate tomato-sauce element beside gari.
The rice takes on colour from the bean liquor, with tender grains and beans forming the main mixture. Chicken pieces, gari and dja complete the selected serving described in the author’s account.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Mustard.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Atassi
Karelle Vignon-Vullierme’s Beninese cowpea atassi with chicken.
- RiceBase
- Dried beige cowpeasBase
- WaterLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- GariAccompaniment
- Dja tomato sauceAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
- Chicken piecesProtein · Chicken accompaniment
- PepperSeasoning · Chicken accompanimentIngredient page not linked
- Garlic powderSeasoning · Chicken accompaniment
- MustardSeasoning · Chicken accompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Dried beige cowpeas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source27 actual beige Niébés/Cornilles bean option selected; broader cowpea identity, exact cultivar unknown. Author personal two-bean mix not defaulted.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit bean soak37 and bean cooking39 reused for rice43; no inferred rice/chicken washing-water allocation.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Rice/bean seasoning43 plus chicken41.
- Gari: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named source34/45 side, full supplied product formula unknown.
- Dja tomato sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named source34/45 friture de tomates; separate complete recipe uninspected, no onion/oil invented in rice pot.
- Chicken pieces: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Author actual separately roasted side41; cuts/earlier prep unknown.
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source41 generic pepper type unspecified.
- Garlic powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mustard: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Mustard source-confirmed. Actual chicken seasoning41; full product formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Benin
- BeninCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Beninese Cuisine
- Beninese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.