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Chichinga

Grilled kebabs (beef, liver, chicken, goat) with a tankora (yaji) spice rub

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Grilled meat

Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above, below or from the side. grilling usually involves a significant amount of direct, radiant heat, and tends to be used for cooking meat and vegetables quickly. food to be grilled is cooked on a grill (an open wire grid such as a gridiron with a heat source above or below), using a cast iron/frying pan, or a grill pan (similar to a frying pan, but with raised ridges to mimic the wires of an open grill). heat transfer to the food when using a grill is primarily through thermal radiation. heat transfer when using a grill pan or griddle is by direct conduction. in the united states, when the heat source for grilling comes from above, grilling is called broiling. in this case, the pan that holds the food is called a broiler pan, and heat transfer is through thermal radiation. direct heat grilling can expose food to temperatures often in excess of 260 °c (500 °f). grilled meat acquires a distinctive roast aroma and flavor from a chemical process called the maillard reaction. the maillard reaction only occurs when foods reach temperatures in excess of 155 °c (310 °f).studies have shown that cooking beef, pork, poultry, and fish at high temperatures can lead to the formation of heterocyclic amines, benzopyrenes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are carcinogens.marination may reduce the formation of these compounds. grilling is often presented as a healthy alternative to cooking with oils, although the fat and juices lost by grilling can contribute to drier food.

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Kanda

Meatballs made with beef, ground pumpkin seeds, onion, garlic, serve with tomato sauce, peanut sauce

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Liboke ya poisson

Fish liboke, fish cooked in banana leaves with vegetables, greens and spices

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Moambe stew

Stew with palm oil or palm cream, vegetables, meat, fish

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Peanut butter rice

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Antelope

The term antelope is used to refer to many species of even-toed ruminant that are indigenous to various regions in africa and eurasia. antelope comprise a wastebasket taxon defined as any of numerous old world grazing and browsing hoofed mammals belonging to the family bovidae of the order artiodactyla.a stricter definition, also known as the "true antelopes," includes only the genera gazella, nanger, eudorcas and antilope. one north american species, the pronghorn, is colloquially referred to as the "american antelope," but it belongs to a different family than the african and eurasian antelopes. a group of antelope is called a herd. unlike deer antlers, which are shed and grown annually, antelope horns grow continuously.

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Capitaine

The nile perch (lates niloticus), also known as the african snook, goliath perch, african barramundi , goliath barramundi, giant lates or the victoria perch, is a species of freshwater fish in family latidae of order perciformes. it is widespread throughout much of the afrotropical realm, being native to the congo, nile, senegal, niger and lake chad, volta, lake turkana, and other river basins. it also occurs in the brackish waters of lake maryut in egypt. the nile perch is a fish of substantial economic and food-security importance in east africa. originally described as labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses, the species has also been referred to as centropomus niloticus. common names include african snook, victoria perch (a misleading trade name, as the species is not native to lake victoria, though they have been introduced there), and many local names in various african languages, such as the luo name mbuta or mputa. in tanzania, it is called sangara, sankara, or chenku. in francophone african countries, it is known as capitaine. its name in the hausa language is giwan ruwa, meaning "water elephant".

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in africa, asia, the americas and australia. the term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family gavialidae) among other extinct taxa. although they appear similar, crocodiles, alligators and the gharial belong to separate biological families. the gharial, with its narrow snout, is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. the most obvious external differences are visible in the head, with crocodiles having narrower and longer heads, with a more v-shaped than a u-shaped snout compared to alligators and caimans. another obvious trait is that the upper and lower jaws of the crocodiles are the same width, and the teeth in the lower jaw fall along the edge or outside the upper jaw when the mouth is closed; therefore, all teeth are visible, unlike an alligator, which possesses in the upper jaw small depressions into which the lower teeth fit. also, when the crocodile's mouth is closed, the large fourth tooth in the lower jaw fits into a constriction in the upper jaw. for hard-to-distinguish specimens, the protruding tooth is the most reliable feature to define the species' family. crocodiles have more webbing on the toes of the hind feet and can better tolerate saltwater due to specialized salt glands for filtering out salt, which are present, but non-functioning, in alligators. another trait that separates crocodiles from other crocodilians is their much higher levels of aggression.crocodile size, morphology, behaviour and ecology differ somewhat among species. however, they have many similarities in these areas as well. all crocodiles are semiaquatic and tend to congregate in freshwater habitats such as rivers, lakes, wetlands and sometimes in brackish water and saltwater. they are carnivorous animals, feeding mostly on vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, and sometimes on invertebrates such as molluscs and crustaceans, depending on species and age. all crocodiles are tropical species that, unlike alligators, are very sensitive to cold. they separated from other crocodilians during the eocene epoch, about 55 million years ago. many species are at the risk of extinction, some being classified as critically endangered.

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Freshwater shrimp

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Monkey

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder simiiformes, also known as the simians. traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, a grouping known as paraphyletic; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regards to their scope.in 1812, geoffroy grouped the apes and the cercopithecidae group of monkeys together and established the name catarrhini, "old world monkeys", ("singes de l'ancien monde" in french). the extant sister of the catarrhini in the monkey ("singes") group is the platyrrhini (new world monkeys). some nine million years before the bifurcation between the cercopithecidae and the apes, the platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to south america from afro-arabia (the old world), likely by ocean. the apes are thus deep in the tree of extant and extinct monkeys, and any of the apes is distinctly closer related to the cercopithecidae than the platyrrhini are. many monkey species are tree-dwelling (arboreal), although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. most species are mainly active during the day (diurnal). monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent, especially the old world monkeys. within suborder haplorhini, the simians are a sister group to the tarsiers – the two members bifurcated some 60 million years ago. new world monkeys and catarrhine monkeys emerged within the simians roughly 35 million years ago. old world monkeys and apes emerged within the catarrhine monkeys about 25 million years ago. extinct basal simians such as aegyptopithecus or parapithecus (35–32 million years ago) are also considered monkeys by primatologists.lemurs, lorises, and galagos are not monkeys; instead they are strepsirrhine primates (suborder strepsirrhini). the simians' sister group, the tarsiers, are also haplorhine primates; however, they are also not monkeys. apes emerged within "monkeys" as sister of the cercopithecidae in the catarrhini, so cladistically they are monkeys as well. there has been resistance to directly designate apes (and thus humans) as monkeys, so "old world monkey" may be taken to mean either the cercopithecoidea (not including apes) or the catarrhini (including apes). that apes are monkeys was already realized by georges-louis leclerc, comte de buffon in the 18th century. linnaeus placed this group in 1758 together with the tarsiers, in a single genus "simia" (sans homo), an ensemble now recognised as the haplorhini.monkeys, including apes, can be distinguished from other primates by having only two pectoral nipples, a pendulous penis, and a lack of sensory whiskers.

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Warthog

Phacochoerus is a genus in the family suidae, commonly known as warthogs (pronounced wart-hog). they are pigs who live in open and semi-open habitats, even in quite arid regions, in sub-saharan africa. the two species were formerly considered conspecific under the scientific name phacochoerus aethiopicus, but today this is limited to the desert warthog, while the best-known and most widespread species, the common warthog (or simply warthog), is phacochoerus africanus. although covered in bristly hairs, their bodies and heads appear largely naked from a distance, with only the crest along the back, and the tufts on their cheeks and tails being obviously haired. the english name refers to their facial wattles, which are particularly distinct in males. they also have very distinct tusks, which reach a length of 10 to 25 inches (25 to 64 centimetres) in the males, but are always smaller in the females. they are largely herbivorous, but occasionally also eat small animals. while both species remain fairly common and widespread, and therefore are considered to be of least concern by the iucn, the nominate subspecies of the desert warthog, commonly known as the cape warthog, became extinct around 1865.

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Egusi

Egusi soup is a soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient. egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous (squash, melon, gourd) plants. egusi soup is common and prevalent across central africa, and may be served atop rice, cooked vegetables, or grilled meat, such as goat, chicken, beef, or fish. it may also be served atop fufu, omelettes, amala, and eba, among other foods. egusi soup is also consumed in west africa, sometimes with chicken.

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Gozo

Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou) is a dough-like food found in west african cuisine. in addition to ghana, it is also found in sierra leone, guinea, liberia, cote d'ivoire, benin, togo, nigeria, cameroon, the democratic republic of congo, the central african republic, the republic of congo, angola and gabon. it is often made in the traditional ghanaian, ivorian, liberian, and cuban method of separately mixing and pounding equal portions of boiled cassava with green plantain or cocoyam, or by mixing cassava/plantains or cocoyam flour with water and stirring it on a stove. the viscosity is then adjusted based on personal preference and eaten with broth-like soups. some countries, particularly nigeria, have a version of fufu made from fermented cassava dough (called akpu by nigerians) that is eaten with thick textured stews. other flours, such as semolina, maize flour, or mashed plantains may take the place of cassava flour. fufu is eaten with the fingers, and a small ball of it can be dipped into an accompanying soup or sauce.

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Peanut sauce

Peanut stew or groundnut stew, also called as maafe (wolof, mafé, maffé, maffe), sauce d'arachide (french), tigadèguèna or domoda, is a stew that is a staple food in western africa. it originates from the mandinka and bambara people of mali.the proper name for it in the mandinka language is domodah or tigadegena (lit. 'peanut butter sauce,' where tige is 'peanut,' dege is 'paste,' and na is 'sauce') in bamanankan.domodah is also used by gambians, having been borrowed from the mandinka language. in senegal domodah or domoda referts to flour-thickened soup or stew, which is different from mafe that uses peanut paste. it is a favorite dish among several senegal and gambia ethnic groups. with the huge expansion of groundnut cultivation during the colonial period, maafe has also become a popular dish across west africa, even outside west africa such as in cameroon and france. variants of the dish appear in the cuisine of nations throughout west africa and central africa. it is very similar to groundnut soup. it may have a thicker consistency. made from lamb, beef, chicken, or without meat, maafe is cooked with a sauce based on groundnuts, especially peanut butter/paste, and tomatoes. in ghana, groundnut stew is often accompanied with fufu.

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Stewed chicken

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Stewed greens

Stewed cassava leaves, kale, malakwang, blackjack, goosefoot, marogo, pigweed, purslane, thistle, sweet potato leaves, malanga, pumpkin leaves, njama njama, spinach

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Stewed plantains