Grain Dessert · Sahel-Style
Dégué
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The same fonio-and-sour-milk dessert, largely unchanged, is eaten across Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso — making dégué one of the few Ivorian dishes shared almost identically across the entire Sahelian grain belt.
Steamed fonio or millet grains are folded into sweetened, slightly sour curdled milk, served chilled as a snack or light dessert. It's a common sight at markets and after-school stalls across Ivory Coast's northern towns.
Why it's made this way: Fonio and dégué reflect Korhogo's place at the southern edge of the Sahel's grain-and-dairy food culture, distinct from the root-and-plantain-based cooking of forested southern Ivory Coast.
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