DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Dambou
Steamed millet semolina mixed with cooked moringa and fried onions.
About Dambou
La Marmite Nigerienne presents dambou with moringa as a national Nigerien dish. This version selects millet semolina from the source’s grain options and mixes it with previously cooked moringa leaves.
Fried onion, fresh green chilli and selected peanut oil season the grain-and-leaf mixture. Roasted sesame powder, peanut paste and seasoned chilli powder remain optional additions.
The steaming process separates and moistens the grains before they join the greens. The finished preparation keeps the cereal and leafy components together, following the source’s moringa version rather than its alternative greens.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Peanut.
Optional additions: Sesame.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Dambou
La Marmite Nigerienne’s millet dambou with moringa.
- Millet semolinaBase
- WaterLiquid
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- Peanut oilCooking medium
- OnionAromatic
- Fresh green chilliSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Cooked moringa leavesBase
- Roasted sesame powderSeasoning · Optional
- Peanut pasteSeasoning · Optional
- Seasoned chilli powderSeasoning · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Millet semolina: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual mil option38 selected over maize/rice; broader millet-grain candidate, exact milling/species unknown.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Grain moistening39/54–55 and onion liquid60 consolidated; separate steam reservoir amount unprovided.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Generic grain oil40/56, source unprovided; not automatically same as preferred peanut accompaniment oil.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Peanut oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Explicit preferred accompaniment oil43 selected; refinement/actual product unknown, no exemption/safety inference.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh green chilli: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit green piments45/fresh60 option; exact botanical identity unresolved.
- Cooked moringa leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual already cooked61 leaves selected over sorrel flowers/purslane; prior complete cooking formula unknown.
- Roasted sesame powder (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Explicit optional lamti46/63; broader sesame-seed candidate retains roasted/powder form.
- Peanut paste (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Optional47 paste branch selected over presscake powder, full product/amount unit2càa unresolved.
- Seasoned chilli powder (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Optional listed48 full blend and addition stage unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Niger
- NigerCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Nigerien Cuisine
- Nigerien Sahelian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.