DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Ekoki
Cameroonian cowpea and palm-oil pudding in banana leaves, accompanied by boiled green bananas.
About Ekoki
Pascaline SAB presents koki, also called ekoki, as a speciality of Cameroon's Bamiléké and Sawa communities. Small black-eyed cowpeas and palm oil give this leaf-wrapped pudding its distinctive substance and yellow colour.
Yellow hot pepper adds heat, while shrimp-flavoured seasoning cubes and salt provide the savoury seasoning. The cowpea mixture has a smooth, substantial consistency within its banana-leaf parcel.
Boiled unripe bananas accompany this rendition. The hot pudding and plain bananas form a complete serving, with the palm oil's richness contrasting with the mild starchy accompaniment.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ekoki
Pascaline SAB's Cameroonian ekoki with unripe bananas.
- Black-eyed cowpeasBase
- Unripe bananasAccompaniment
- Palm oilCooking medium
- Maggi shrimp-flavoured seasoning cubesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Yellow hot pepperSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Banana leavesCooking medium
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Black-eyed cowpeas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual77 petits haricots blancs yeux noirs/cornilles, broader cowpea candidate; no white commonbean substitution.
- Unripe bananas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual78 required in named full plate/list, full own97-98 boiling method; not merely optional side suggestion by role.
- Palm oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual79/90 mixture and97 hand-contact for peeling bananas, retained same actual oil.
- Maggi shrimp-flavoured seasoning cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual80 crevette flavour named; exact current product label/allergen formula unprovided, no automatic literal shrimp ingredient assertion.
- Yellow hot pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual81 piment jaune, exact species/cultivar unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual83/86 soaking/washing and94-98 steaming/topup/banana boiling; shared explicit medium.
- Banana leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual84/91-95 food-contact banana leaves wrap91-93 and cover95; their named leaf stems line the pot94. Actual93 separately names banana-plant vines for ties, a nonfood fastening material whose precise anatomy/species is not established; not equated with the leaf-stem lining or asserted eaten.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Cameroon
- CameroonCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Cameroonian Cuisine
- Cameroonian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.