DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Djenkoumé
Toasted maize-flour dough cooked in tomato sauce, accompanied by seasoned chicken and chilli purée.
About Djenkoumé
Tatiana's djenkoumé is a Togolese maize dish recorded by Togolicious from her own demonstration. The soft, savoury dough has the nutty flavour of toasted maize and the richness of tomato sauce.
The sauce, called nougbagba, combines ripe tomatoes, tomato paste, onion, garlic and ginger. Chicken cooking juices contribute the bird's garlic, ginger, clove, anise and black-pepper seasoning to its flavour.
The plate features a moulded portion of maize dough beside fried chicken and a separate chilli purée. An optional whole chilli adds further heat to the tomato sauce.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Peanuts.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Djenkoumé
Tatiana's Togolese djenkoumé with fried chicken and chilli purée.
- Maize flourBase
- ChickenAccompaniment
- Garlic clovesAromatic
- OnionAromatic
- Ginger rootAromatic
- Chicken stock cubesSeasoning
- CloveSeasoning
- Anise seedsSeasoning
- Black peppercornsSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Sunflower oilCooking medium
- Ripe fresh tomatoesBase
- Tomato pasteSeasoning
- Garlic pasteAromatic
- Ginger pasteAromaticIngredient page not linked
- Peanut oilCooking medium
- Bouillon cube for tomato sauceSeasoning · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Whole chilli for tomato sauceSeasoning · Optional
- Antillean chillies for puréeAccompaniment
- Oil for chilli puréeCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Maize flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main9/20-22 explicitly maize flour dry-toasted, exact millinggrade unprovided; no cornstarch substitution.
- Chicken: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken9 pieces, full boil then actually offered fry23-24 route selected.
- Garlic cloves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken10/17 fresh garlic, distinct from named sauce paste.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Chicken11, sauce15 and chilli15/20 optional onion garnish consolidate.
- Ginger root: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Chicken12/17 fresh root, distinct from named sauce paste.
- Chicken stock cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken13/17 required named poultry product, full upstream extra formula/allergens unknown.
- Clove: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken14.
- Anise seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken15 explicit graine d’anis.
- Black peppercorns: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken16 explicit black pepper seeds/wholecorns.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken19 and chilli15-16 literal cooking water; retained in chicken juice used main18. Unnamed bowl-moistening medium main44 not asserted as separately specified water.
- Sunflower oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chicken24 selected frying route explicit sunflower oil.
- Ripe fresh tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce12 fresh first branch selected over canned winter alternate.
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce14 directly linked full paste page404; exact formula unresolved, not assumed only raw garlic.
- Ginger paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce17 directly linked same full paste page404; exact product/formula unresolved.
- Peanut oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanuts source-confirmed. Own sauce18 explicit huile d’arachide, no refinement/allergen exemption inferred.
- Bouillon cube for tomato sauce (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce16 explicitly optional generic cube, separate from named required chicken stock cubes; salt replacement23 unselected.
- Whole chilli for tomato sauce (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce25 explicitly offered optional whole chilli, exact species unknown.
- Antillean chillies for purée: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main47 green chilli purée paired; directly linked full sauce7-17 uses named piments antillais, exact botanical species not forced.
- Oil for chilli purée: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own chilli17 generic oil, botanical identity unknown; not assumed peanut/sunflower from other components.
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.