Abidjan Street Food

5 dishes in Ivory Coast

5 street foods from Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Akpessi, Sauce Claire au Tilapia, Claclo, Placali and N'Tro Sauce. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Abidjan

Lagoon Breakfast · Ébrié Style Akpessi The same name covers plantain, yam and cassava versions, and the choice of starch changes the dish more than the sauce does. Plantain, yam or cassava is boiled and served in or with a sauce of African eggplant, tomato, onion, chili and often red palm oil, usually with smoked fish, and roughly crushed into a… Lagoon Sauce · Akpi-Spiced Sauce Claire au Tilapia Akpi, the ground seed of the forest tree Ricinodendron heudelotii, adds a nutty flavor and a little body to the broth without any flour or palm oil. A light, tangy fish broth built around tilapia, tomatoes, onion, chili and often akpi seed, thinner and less oily than most Ivorian sauces. It's ladled over foutou or attiéké rather than… Street Snack · Plantain Galette Claclo Unlike alloco, the fried plantain slices, claclo is made from plantain so ripe it's almost black, mashed into a batter so it fries up as a soft… Overripe plantain is mashed with a little flour, onion, chili and ginger into a soft dough, then dropped by the spoonful into hot oil, often palm oil, and fried into golden balls. Vendors… Cassava Staple · Lightly Fermented Placali Placali is left to ferment for a day or two before it's cooked, giving it a faint sourness that sets it apart from same-day cassava foutou. Grated cassava is soaked and lightly fermented, then cooked down into a smooth, elastic, off-white paste. It's eaten by hand, pinched off and dipped into okra (gombo) or kplala sauce, and… 🥘 Sunday Sauce · Ébrié Tradition N'Tro Sauce Ébrié families traditionally reserve N'Tro for Sunday meals, treating it less like an everyday recipe and more like a small weekly ritual. Fresh okra and djoumblé (dried okra) are cooked with kplala leaves and small bitter gnangnan eggplants into a dark, glossy, deeply savory sauce, simmered with fish or meat. It's spooned…

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