Fufu
Dough-like food in African cuisine
Fufu
Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou foo-foo ) is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine originally made from boiled cassava, plantains, and cocoyam. Fufu's prevalence in West Africa has been noted in local literature, such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Fufu is a Twi word originating from the Akans in Ghana. However, the word has been expanded to include several variations of the pounded meal found in other African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Angola and Gabon. It also includes variations in the Greater Antilles and Central America, where African culinary influence is high. In Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Liberia, they use the method of separately mixing and pounding equal portions of boiled cassava with green plantain or cocoyam, or by mixing cassava/plantain/cocoyam flour with water and stirring it on a stove. Its thickness...
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