Celtnet Togo (Togolese) Recipes and Cookery, Home Page





Welcome to the Celtnet Recipes section for recipes from the West African country of Togo. Here you will find all the recipes from Togo on this site all gathered into one place. I have attempted to gather together here as many Togolese recipes as possible. The current collection represents the largest gathering of Togolese recipes into one place on the web today. (Just scroll down for the recipes, they follow the brief introduction to Togo given below.)

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Togo and its Cuisine

Togo; officially: République Togolaise; whose capital is Lomé. The Togolese Republic achieved independence from France on April 27th, 1960. Togo's culture reflects the influences of its thirty-seven ethnic groups, the largest and most influential of which are the Ewe, Mina, and Kabre. Though French is the official language, the many indigenous African languages spoken by Togolese include: Gbe languages such as Ewe, Mina, and Aja; Kabiyé; and others. Over half the Togolese people adhere to native, animist, belief systems despite the influences of Islam and Christianity.

Despite having been a German colony and then split between France and England much of Togloese cuisine is a native one. Staples include maize, cassava, yam, rice, plantains, beans and millet. The most widely eaten food is maize, while rice consumption is quite low. Like many West African countries fish is the most important source of protein, though bush meat is often hunted and consumed. Fufu ranks amongst the country's staples. Togolese cuisine is a combination of African and French culinary styles, combining rice’s, sauces, fish, meat and vegetables in order to serve traditional dishes, like koklo meme, grilled Chicken with a spicy chili sauce, pâté, made from millet, plantains, corn or manioc, riz sauce d’arachide, simply rice with Peanut sauce, and other sauces based on Eggplant, tomato, fish or spinach. Generally Togolese cuisine is rich in sauces and pates and is often spiced with chillies.


The alphabetical list of recipes from Togo follows (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 11 recipes in total:


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Ablo
(Togolese Corn Bread)
     Origin: Togo
Crevettes aux Poivrons
(Prawns with Bell Peppers)
     Origin: Togo
Poulet Djenkoumé
(Djenkoumé Chicken)
     Origin: Togo
Akume with Ademe Sauce
     Origin: Togo
Darnes de Thon au Lait de Coco
(Tuna Steaks with Coconut Milk)
     Origin: Togo
Togo Bananas
     Origin: Togo
Chicken Groundnut Soup
     Origin: Togo
Grilled Plantains
     Origin: Togo
Togolese Couscous in Peanut Sauce
     Origin: Togo
Crevettes aux Poivrons
(Prawns with Bell Peppers)
     Origin: Togo
Huitres Azi Dessi
(Fried Oysters with Chilli, Smoked Prawns and Peanut Sauce)
     Origin: Togo

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The image above shows the entire continent of Africa with West Africa picked out in red. West Africa is formed from sixteen states: 1: Benin; 2: Burkina Faso; 3: Côte d'Ivoire; 4: The Gambia; 5: Ghana; 6: Guinea; 7: Guinea-Bissau; 8: Liberia; 9: Mali; 10: Mauritania; 11: Niger; 12: Nigeria; 13: Senegal; 14: Sierra Leone; 15: Togo. Also included are the islands of Cape Verde, off the Senegalese coast (not shown on the map).

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