DISH RESEARCH · Sauce
Karakandji sauce
Also known as: Sauce karakandji
Meat and karakandji flowers in a tomato-peanut sauce.
About Karakandji sauce
The Peace Corps C.A.R. cookbook includes karakandji sauce among its African specialities. Its recipe combines meat and brown karakandji flowers with an onion, garlic and tomato-paste base.
Peanut butter gives the sauce richness and body, while onion and garlic supply the aromatic foundation. The publication leaves the meat species and the flowers’ botanical identity unspecified, so this version retains their source names.
Small pieces of meat sit within the simmered flower-and-peanut sauce. Rice is the selected serving option from the source’s rice-or-boule pairing, with its separate preparation left unspecified.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Peanut.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Karakandji sauce
The Peace Corps C.A.R. cookbook’s karakandji sauce.
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- MeatProteinIngredient page not linked
- Tomato pasteBase
- WaterLiquid
- Brown karakandji flowersBaseIngredient page not linked
- Peanut butterBinder
- RiceAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source generic oil species unspecified; no peanut/palm choice borrowed from adjacent recipes.
- Meat: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual generic meat53, species and cut unknown; no forced beef/pork selection.
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual small can, full product formula unprovided.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual covering meat and thinning peanut butter53 consolidated; washed flower medium unprovided, not new invented allocation.
- Brown karakandji flowers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual brown flowers53; exact botanical species and fresh/dried form not established. No invented hibiscus identity.
- Peanut butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Named peanut butter53 supports Peanut, full product formulation unknown.
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual rice serving option53 selected over boule; separate preparation formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Central African Republic
- Central African RepublicCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Central African Republic Cuisine
- Central African Republic CuisineCatalogue link pending review