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Charmout

Sahel dried meat, rehydrated and simmered as a sauce.

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Ingredients

  • Dried meat (charmout)
  • Onion, oil, chilli

Method

  1. Soak the dried meat.
  2. Sauté and simmer as a sauce.
  3. Serve with millet or rice.
Origin
Transhumance meat, Sahel and east.
Occasion
Dry season, travel, stores.

In depth

Machine translation from French, under review. The French text is authoritative.

Charmout is dried meat, often pounded, used in sauces. Combined with dried okra, it makes the sauce called tagalia.

Base
Dried meat
Associated dish
Tagalia (with dry gombo)

Sources

  1. Ialtchad Presse, « Cuisine tchadienne »

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