DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Chere
Access Gambia’s Cherreh serves steamed millet balls with a beef-and-vegetable sauce.

About Chere
Access Gambia’s Cherreh serves steamed millet balls with a beef-and-vegetable sauce. This named Gambian version includes dried fish and fresh peanuts, rather than treating the millet as a stand-alone milk dessert.
Peanuts add a nutty richness around the beef, dried fish, onion and peppers. Spinach and okra form part of the sauce, with salt, pepper and stock cubes providing its seasoning.
The beef is simmered until tender and the sauce reduces before the greens and sliced peppers join it. The finished sauce is served over the prepared Cherreh, keeping the millet as the base of the meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish, Peanut.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chere
Access Gambia’s Cherreh with beef, dried fish and peanut sauce.
- Steamed millet ballsBase
- SpinachBase
- Dried fishProtein
- OkraBase
- BeefProtein
- Fresh peanutsBase
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Maggi stock cubesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- OnionAromatic
- WaterLiquid
- Green bell pepperBase
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Steamed millet balls: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Ready-made steamed millet balls source17; exact prior flour/water/other formula unprovided. Broader millet-couscous link, no manufactured whole-wheat substitution.
- Spinach: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Dried fish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Species and drying/preservation formula unprovided.
- Okra: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Beef: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh peanuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Grated fresh form named22; broader peanut identity.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source23 generic pepper; exact type unspecified.
- Maggi stock cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact cube flavour, market product and full ingredient/allergen formula unprovided.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Listed water26 and method sauce water29. Boiling greens medium not separately specified.
- Green bell pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual green option selected over red; not hot-pepper inference.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- The Gambia
- GambiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Gambian Cuisine
- Gambian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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