DISH RESEARCH · Sauce
Dékou dessi
Togolese palm-fruit sauce with smoked mackerel, salted fish and fresh shrimp.
About Dékou dessi
Cendras HOVA presents dékou as a palm-fruit sauce familiar in southern Togo, at celebrations and in everyday meals. Her rendition contains smoked mackerel, salted fish and fresh shrimp.
Palm concentrate gives the sauce its rich base. Onion, garlic and ginger provide aromatics, with concentrated tomato and chilli contributing further flavour around the seafood.
The sauce is accompanied by rice in this presentation. Smoked fish, salted fish and shrimp give the bowl distinct seafood elements within its palm-fruit character.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish, Crustaceans.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Dékou dessi
Cendras HOVA's Togolese palm-fruit dékou with smoked mackerel and shrimp.
- Prepared palm-fruit concentrateBase
- Smoked mackerelProtein
- Fresh shrimpProtein
- OnionsAromatic
- Tomato pasteSeasoning
- GarlicAromatic
- GingerAromatic
- Salted fishProtein
- SaltSeasoning
- ChilliSeasoning
- Stock cubeSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- Prepared riceAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Prepared palm-fruit concentrate: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual26 concentré de palme, clarified exact saucegraine/palmfruit22 and native Dékou identity70-72. Broad extract candidate, complete prepared formula unknown; not peanut paste or isolated palm oil.
- Smoked mackerel: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual27 literal mackerel.
- Fresh shrimp: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Actual28 first offered fresh shrimp option over crab; method40/45 generic both references retained as source option discrepancy, not recipe union.
- Onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salted fish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual33 unspecified fish species, Fish positive.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Chilli: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual35 piment, cultivar and form unprovided.
- Stock cube: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual36 bouillon cube, full product formula unknown, no inferred Celery/Milk/Soy/Wheat/animalbase.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual37/43 recipe liquid and40 seafood washing water consolidated.
- Prepared rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual22 rice selected over foutou, full preparation unlinked/unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Togo
- TogoCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Togolese Cuisine
- Togolese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.