Anto Cocagne, Aline Princet

Starches and Derivatives

Appears in
Saka Saka: Adventures in African cooking, south of the Sahara
Saka Saka

By Anto Cocagne and Aline Princet

Published 2022

  • About
Starches and Grains
  • Black-eyed peas
  • Corn
  • Fonio
  • Fufu (cassava starch)
  • Millet
  • Parboiled long-grain rice
  • Sorghum
Tubers
  • Cassava
  • Sweet potato
  • Taro
  • Yam (or white sweet potato)
Semolinas
  • Couscous (attiéké for cassava, thiakry for medium millet semolina, araw for rolled millet flour)
  • Garri (fermented, dried and ground cassava)
  • Tapioca
  • Thiéré (fine millet semolina)
Flours
  • Cassava flour
  • Cornmeal
Breads
  • Bobolo, chikwangue, miondo (all cassava based)
Paste
  • Placali (fermented cassava paste)