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Burkinabé cuisine

Index Burkinabé cuisine

Burkinabé cuisine, the cuisine of Burkina Faso, is similar to the cuisines in many parts of West Africa, and is based on staple foods of sorghum, millet, rice, fonio, maize, peanuts, potatoes, beans, yams and okra. [1]

46 relations: Adansonia, Adansonia digitata, Bean, Beef, Beer, Bell pepper, Burkina Faso, Carrot, Chicken as food, CRC Press, Cuisine, Drink, Fish as food, Fonio, Fufu, Ginger, Goat, Ivory Coast, Lamb and mutton, Lemon, List of African cuisines, Maize, Millet, Mossi language, Okra, Oxfam, Peanut, Pearl millet, Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Polenta, Potato, Rice, Riz gras, Roselle (plant), Senegal, Skewer, Soft drink, Sorghum, Staple food, Sumbala, Tamarind, Togolese cuisine, Tomato, West Africa, Yam (vegetable), Yogurt.

Adansonia

Adansonia is a genus of deciduous trees known as baobabs.

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Adansonia digitata

Adansonia digitata, the baobab, is the most widespread of the Adansonia species, and is native to the African continent.

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Bean

A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.

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Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle.

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Beer

Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.

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Bell pepper

The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, pepper or capsicum) is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Carrot

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist.

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Chicken as food

Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.

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Cuisine

A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region.

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Drink

A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption.

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Fish as food

Many species of fish are consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.

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Fonio

Fonio is the term for two cultivated grains in the genus Digitaria which are notable crops in parts of West Africa.

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Fufu

Fufu (variants of the name include foofoo, fufuo, foufou) is a staple food common in many countries in Africa such as Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.

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Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine.

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Goat

The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.

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Lamb and mutton

Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages.

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Lemon

The lemon, Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck, is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia.

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List of African cuisines

This is a list of African cuisines.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Millet

Millets (/ˈmɪlɪts/) are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.

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Mossi language

The Mossi language (known in the language as Mooré; also Mòoré, Mõõré, Moré, Moshi, Moore, More) is a Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of two official regional languages of Burkina Faso, closely related to the Frafra language spoken just across the border in the northern half of Ghana and less-closely to Dagbani and Mampruli further south.

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Okra

Okra or okro, known in many English-speaking countries as ladies' fingers or ochro, is a flowering plant in the mallow family.

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Oxfam

Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

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Peanut

The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Pearl millet

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of millet.

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Plant Resources of Tropical Africa

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, known by its acronym PROTA, is an international programme concerned with making scientific information about utility plants accessible in Africa, supporting their sustainable use to reduce poverty.

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Polenta

Polenta is a dish of boiled cornmeal that was historically made from other grains.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Riz gras

Riz gras is a meat- and rice-based dish in Burkinabé cuisine, the cuisine of Burkina Faso, Africa.

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Roselle (plant)

Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is a species of Hibiscus probably native to West Africa, used for the production of bast fibre and as an infusion, in which it may be known as carcade.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Skewer

A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together.

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Soft drink

A soft drink (see terminology for other names) typically contains carbonated water (although some lemonades are not carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural or artificial flavoring.

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Sorghum

Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae.

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Staple food

A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.

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Sumbala

Sumbala or soumbala is a condiment used widely across West Africa.

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Tamarind

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae indigenous to tropical Africa.

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Togolese cuisine

Togolese cuisine is the cuisine of the Togolese Republic, a country in Western Africa.

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Tomato

The tomato (see pronunciation) is the edible, often red, fruit/berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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Yogurt

Yogurt, yoghurt, or yoghourt (or; from yoğurt; other spellings listed below) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkinabé_cuisine

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