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Sweet potatoes, kola nuts and vegetables from Africa
In this aisle, two sweet potatoes sold by the kilo: the white sweet potato, with white skin and white flesh, and the purple sweet potato, with purple skin and white flesh. Sweet and soft once cooked, they can be boiled, fried, roasted or mashed, and go with African and Caribbean sauces.
Alongside them, kola nuts, red or white, and bitter kola: two seeds to chew, to offer and to share, as people do in West Africa.
The other vegetables of our cuisines travel dried or tinned, and sit in other aisles:
- NUMBER ONE dried ndolé leaves: the bitter leaves for Cameroonian ndolé.
- NUMBER ONE dried cassava leaves: for Congolese pondu and saka saka.
- CODAL ravitoto: pounded cassava leaves from Madagascar, tinned.
- CODAL brèdes mafana: the greens for romazava, the Malagasy meat broth.
- CODAL small Malagasy aubergines: angivy, tinned.
- CATALEYA djoumblé: dried okra, for okra sauce.
- NUMBER ONE green lalo: baobab leaf powder.
- NUMBER ONE fakoye: dried and ground jute leaves for fakoye sauce, in Mali.
Frequently asked questions
How do I cook white sweet potato?
Peel it or keep the well-washed skin on, then boil it in chunks for about twenty minutes, fry it in sticks or roast it in the oven. It goes with braised fish, stews and peanut sauces. For a sweet treat, try our sweet potato fritters.
What is ravitoto and how do I make it?
Ravitoto is a dish from Madagascar: pounded cassava leaves, slowly cooked with pork. CODAL ravitoto, already pounded and tinned, saves you the longest step. The recipe is on our blog: ravitoto.
What is ndolé and where can I find the leaves?
Ndolé is a dish from Cameroon, made with bitter ndolé leaves, peanuts, dried shrimp and meat or fish. NUMBER ONE dried leaves are rehydrated before cooking; the Cameroonian ndolé kit brings together the dry ingredients.
Where can I buy African vegetables online?
At NKOSI: white and purple sweet potatoes and, dried or tinned, ndolé and cassava leaves, greens and aubergines from Madagascar, dried okra, lalo and fakoye. Delivered to mainland France and ten European countries.
