DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Foutou
Smooth pounded plantain and cassava formed into balls.
About Foutou
Alice Pégie presents this foutou banane as an Ivorian dish, selecting ripe but firm plantains and cassava from the wider family of pounded starch preparations. Her recipe uses the two together.
Plantain supplies sweetness and cassava adds its own mild starchy character. The selected formula keeps the focus on these ingredients, without importing the red oil or seasonings used in another published version.
The two cooked components become a smooth, dense mixture shaped into balls. The source offers sauce graine or sauce claire alongside; this profile selects sauce graine as the accompaniment, with its separate formula unresolved.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
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Ingredients in Foutou
Alice Pégie’s Ivorian plantain-and-cassava foutou.
- Ripe firm plantainsBase
- CassavaBase
- WaterCooking medium
- Sauce graineAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Ripe firm plantains: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual ripe but firm plantains197, not generic dessert banana.
- Cassava: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual boiling water203, drained204; no commenter-added pounding water imported.
- Sauce graine: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual serving208 option selected over sauce claire. Separate sauce species/ingredients/full formula unspecified; not assumed peanut, palm or meat formula.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Côte d’Ivoire
- GuineaCatalogue link pending review
- Central African RepublicCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Ivorian Cuisine
- Guinean CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.