Dégué -dessert from Ivory Coast

  Dégué is a typical dessert from Ivory Coast, also from Mali or Mauritania, and from Senegal where the dessert is called Thiakry. It's a tasty dairy dessert that may remind you of a kind of rice pudding, but made with another cereal, millet.

The dessert is usually prepared for baptisms or weddings. It's also very simple.

Ingredients:

- 300 grams evaporated milk.

- 200 grams millet couscous.

- 300 grams yogurt.

- 200 grams fresh cream.

- 100 grams sugar.

- 1 teaspoon Vanilla.

- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg.

- 10 grams Butter.

Method:

1- To cook millet couscous, pour boiling water over it until it covers everything, then let it stand for half an hour until the semolina has absorbed all the water. In case you find not completely soft, you can continue cooking it for 5 minutes in the microwave.

2- Add the butter to the millet, mix well.

3- Pour evaporated milk, fresh cream and yogurt into a bowl and mix well.Add sugar, vanilla, and millet, continue stirring well.

Then add nutmeg and to garnish, some raisins.

4- It is served cold and it can last in the refrigerator for several days.

You can also watch the recipe on my Youtube Channel:

Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:  

Favourite cooking tools

Ivory Coast

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Recipes from Cáceres that I cooked:

Zorongollo

Pork stew

Flowers

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Dioula Salad from Ivory Coast

Dioula salad is a healthy and typical dish from the Ivory Coast. It's a simple salad with stewed meat, spices and a Maggi cube which is indispensable in African cuisine.

Dioula is a language spoken by 10 million inhabitants in the countries of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, and the ethnic group that speaks this language is also called Dioula.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilo of beef meet.

- 1 onion.

- 1 clove of garlic.

- 1 teaspoon of anise seeds.

- Oil.

- Pepper.

- Salt.

- 1Maggi cube.

- 2 bay leaves.

- 1 tablespoon of mustard sauce.

- Cucumber.

- Tomato.

- Whitw Vinegar.

- Eggs.

- Lettuce.

Method:

1- Cut the meat into small cubes and fry it with oil, chopped garlic and onion, anise seeds, pepper, a Maggi cube, and bay leaves.

2- Once the meat has started to get done, add enough water to cover all the meat. Also add the mustard and let it boil. Then reduce the heat and let it cook for an hour.

3- Peel the cucumber and slice it. Besides, cut the tomato into pieces. Place them on a plate along with lettuce and a hard-boiled egg cut into quarters. Add the meat on top.

4- Pour white vinegar into a jar along with some of the liquid from cooking the meat. Add olive oil and salt. Close the jar and shake well. Pour the dressing over the salad, and you're done!

You can also watch the recipe on my Youtube Channel:

Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:  

Favourite cooking tools

Ivory Coast

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