DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Ebbeh
My Gambia presents ebbeh as a familiar Gambian street food, combining cassava with smoked fish and shellfish.
About Ebbeh
My Gambia presents ebbeh as a familiar Gambian street food, combining cassava with smoked fish and shellfish. This version retains both smoked bonga and smoked catfish, alongside crab and shrimp, rather than choosing just one seafood.
Tamarind and lemon powder give the soup its sour seasoning. Palm oil, hot peppers, red pepper powder and salt join the selected Maggi cubes; the cubes’ full product formula is not supplied.
The cooked cassava is pounded with hot peppers before returning to the pot. A cassava-powder slurry thickens the simmered mixture, producing the creamy soup-like presentation described by the local publisher.
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 Ebbeh
My Gambia’s cassava ebbeh with smoked bonga, catfish, crab and shrimp.
- Cassava rootBase
- Smoked bonga fishProteinIngredient page not linked
- Smoked catfishProtein
- CrabProtein
- ShrimpProtein
- Palm oilCooking medium
- Hot peppersSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Hot red pepper powderSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Lemon powderSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Maggi cubesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- TamarindSeasoning
- Cassava powderBinderIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Cassava root: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual peeled chunks25, no sweetpotato/yam option selected.
- Smoked bonga fish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Literal bonga26 supports Fish; exact species/candidate/smoking product unresolved.
- Smoked catfish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Broader catfish candidate, actual smoked form27; full smoking formula unknown.
- Crab: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Literal halves28 support Crustaceans, species unprovided.
- Shrimp: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Literal shrimp29 support Crustaceans, species unprovided.
- Palm oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Hot peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual whole hot peppers31/40, exact cultivar unresolved.
- Hot red pepper powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Separate powdered seasoning32, cultivar/full product formula unknown, not assumed cayenne.
- Lemon powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal named powder33, full product formulation unprovided; not silently replaced by fresh lime from general intro22.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Maggi cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Maggi choice35 selected over Jumbo; exact market/flavour/full compound formula unknown.
- Tamarind: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cassava powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual thickening powder37/43; flour versus starch product not established, no arbitrary exact mapping.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit warm tamarind liquid36 and slurry water43 consolidated; no measured amount invented.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- The Gambia
- GambiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Gambian Cuisine
- Gambian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.