# The best Togolese dishes

Fetri dessi, akoume, kom, ayimolou and koliko: the sauces, pastes and fried dishes of Togolese cuisine.

- 3 votes · 19 items
- Nov 2, 2021 · Geneviève Gagnon
- https://even.best/en/l/3366/the-best-togolese-dishes

## Top 19

1. **Akoume** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cornmeal paste, the staple served with sauces.
2. **Egusi sauce** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thick sauce of ground egusi seeds and local spinach.
3. **Gboma dessi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Local spinach sauce with meat or smoked fish.
4. **Fetri dessi (okra sauce)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Okra sauce with palm oil, meat, prawns or crab.
5. **Fufu** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yam pounded in a mortar, soft and elastic.
6. **Ademe sauce** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jute-leaf sauce with smoked fish and prawns.
7. **Palm nut sauce** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Palm nut sauce with tripe and beef.
8. **Peanut sauce** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peanut sauce served with rice, yam or fufu.
9. **Kenkey** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fermented corn dumplings in husks, with fried fish.
10. **Ablo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Slightly sweet steamed corn cake.
11. **Akpan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tangy fermented corn ball steamed in banana leaf.
12. **Yakayeke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fine corn couscous of the Epe-Ekpe festival.
13. **Ayimolou** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice and beans cooked together.
14. **Koliko** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yam fries with chili sauce.
15. **Koklo meme** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Braised chicken marinated in tomato sauce.
16. **Grilled fish** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grilled fish with tomato sauce and vegetables.
17. **Gaou** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spicy bean fritters.
18. **Kelewele** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thin spicy plantain chips.
19. **Chichinga** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grilled meat skewers.

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