Charcoal Grill · Northern Kiosk
Choukouya de Poulet
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The name is a local form of 'suya', and the meat is usually dusted with kankankan, a peppery peanut-and-spice powder, and served with raw onion, tomato and chili.
Chicken, mutton or beef is marinated in a well-seasoned spice blend and grilled slowly on embers until tender and smoky. Northern kiosks sell it chopped into pieces alongside attiéké, alloco or plain bread.
Why it's made this way: Choukouya is a variant of the Hausa suya grill brought by Nigerien and Hausa traders and herders, and it is especially at home in northern savanna towns like Korhogo, where livestock herding runs deeper than in the humid south.
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