IDEAL PANTRY

 STARCHES

AND DERIVATIVES

STARCHES AND GRAINS

Black-eyed peas

Corn

starch) Fufu (cassava

Parboiled long- grain rice

Sorghum

TUBERS

Cassava

Sweet potato

Taro

Yam (or white sweet potato)

SEMOLINAS

BREADS

chikwangue. miondo (all

cassava based)

PASTE

Placali (fermented cassava paste)

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

African pear

Avocado

Banana

Baobab fruit

Coconut

Guava

Lemon

Lime

(attiéké for cassava, thiakry for medium millet semolina, araw for rolled millet flour)

Mango

Papaya

Pineapple

Garri

(fermented,

dried, and ground

cassava)

Thiéré (fine millet semolina)

FLOURS

Cassava flour

Passionfruit

Pomegranate

Rockmelon

Saba

Soursop (custard apple)

Star fruit

Strawberry

Tamarind

Watermelon

VEGETABLES

African eggplant

Cabbage

Carrot

Okra

Sweet pepper

Tomato

Turnip

NUTS, SPICES, AND OILSEEDS

African

pistachios

Baobab seeds

Cashews

Country onions (rondelles)

Ginger

Grains of

paradise

Odika (wild mango seed)

Peanuts and peanut butter

Pèbè (Gabon nutmeg)

AROMATICS, CONDIMENTS. AND HERBS

Amaranth.

Penja pepper, black pepper

Prekese

(tetrapleura tetraptera)

cassava. Guinea sorrel.

kinkeliba.

mustard.

ndolé, okra,

sweet potato, and taro leaves

OILS

Bay leaves

flowers)

Garlic

ground or paste

Turmeric, fresh or ground

Ginger

Onion

Parsley

Small dried

shrimp or fish (whole or ground)

Coconut oil

(delicious when used for

cooking rice!) Neutral

vegetable oil

(peanut, canola. corn, sunflower)

Red palm oil

(unrefined-rich in vitamin A)

Sweet/mild or habanero chiles (fresh or ground)

Tamarind

Thyme

UTENSILS

Tomato paste (concentrated purée)

Large mortar

and fufu

(cassava) pestle

Small mortar and spice pestle

• Wooden spoon

Cornmeal