DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Dongo-Dongo Okra Stew
Gabon-attributed fish-and-okra stew with onion, garlic and chilli.
About Dongo-Dongo Okra Stew
The Peace Corps cookbook identifies its Gabon-attributed dongo dongo as fish with okra. This version selects smoked fish and the source’s tomato-paste option for a thinner sauce, with rice as the accompaniment.
Onion, garlic and piment provide the aromatic base. Smoked fish contributes its preserved-seafood character, while Maggi cubes season the stew; their full product formula is not given.
Sliced okra cooks in liquid around the fish. The tomato-paste branch loosens the sauce, while the separately offered bicarbonate or potash adjustment is not selected. The stew is presented alongside rice.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Dongo-Dongo Okra Stew
Peace Corps Gabon’s smoked-fish dongo dongo, tomato-paste option.
- OnionsAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- PimentSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- OkraBase
- Maggi cubesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Smoked fishProtein
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- Tomato pasteBase
- RiceAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Piment: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual piments in source, exact chilli species/form unprovided; not automatically allspice.
- Okra: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Maggi cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual cubes; exact market/product formula unprovided, no invented chicken/shrimp/milk/soy assignment.
- Smoked fish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual poisson fumé option chosen over salted fish or browned meat; Fish positive, species/formula unknown.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual sauté oil in Dongo method, botanical type unspecified. Adjacent peanut-oil fish-curry recipe is separate, not imported.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit cover-okra cooking water and selected tomato-paste branch liquid consolidated.
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual offered thinner-sauce branch selected over canned whole tomatoes; no dose invented.
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual serving option selected over foufou/manioc/banane pilée; full separate preparation unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Gabon
- GabonCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Gabonese Cuisine
- Gabonese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.