Liberia

Jollof rice

Rice cooked in pepper and tomato with meat, served at every gathering.

Palm butter

Palm fruit pulp simmered with fish and meat into a thick red soup over rice.

Cassava leaf

Pounded cassava leaves cooked with palm oil, smoked fish and meat.

Dumboy

Cassava pounded into an elastic ball, swallowed in pieces with soup.

Check rice

Rice cooked with potato greens and palm oil until it turns green.

Torborgee

Bitter greens cooked with fermented fish and a great deal of pepper.

Palava sauce

Leafy greens stewed with meat, fish and palm oil, named for the arguments it settles.

Pepper soup

Hot, thin broth of goat or fish, drunk to sweat out a cold.

Rice bread

Rice flour and banana baked into a dense sweet loaf, sliced with tea.

Kala

Fried dough balls sold hot from roadside pans in the morning.

Fufu and soup

Fermented cassava dough with a pepper soup, sour and hot together.

Ginger beer

Raw ginger pressed with lime and sugar, strong enough to catch the throat.