TROFAI sauce graine is a tinned concentrate of palm nut pulp. The longest part of the work is already done: the nuts have been cooked, pitted and pressed. All that is left for you is to dilute, season and simmer it with meat or fish. 400 g tin.
What is sauce graine?
It is the orange-red sauce drawn from the pulp of the oil palm's fruit, the “nuts”. The same base changes name at every border: sauce graine in Côte d'Ivoire, abenkwan (palm nut soup) in Ghana, banga in Nigeria, moambe in the two Congos, nyembwe in Gabon. The TROFAI tin actually carries both names, sauce graine and moambe. This is not palm oil: it is the whole pulp of the fruit, thicker, which cooking turns into a sauce. Do not confuse it with mafé either, which is a peanut sauce.
How to prepare it?
- Pour the concentrate into a pot and thin it with water, little by little, until you reach the consistency you want.
- Let it simmer for 15 to 20 minutes over medium heat: the red oil rises to the surface, which is a good sign.
- Add the already prepared meat, smoked fish or crab, with onion, tomato and chilli, then continue cooking.
In Côte d'Ivoire, sauce graine is served with foutou, rice or attiéké; in Ghana and Nigeria, with foufou; in Congo, moambe goes with chicken.
What to pair it with?
The NUMBER ONE smoked catfish fillet for the smoky taste, MARGUERITE dried attiéké or RACINES cassava foufou to serve it with, and MAMA FUTA red palm oil if you like a richer sauce. The recipes are on the blog: sauce graine, Congolese moambe and banga soup. The whole aisle: palm oil and sauce graine.
Product information
- Brand: TROFAI, distributed in France by Racines (Montpellier)
- Net weight: 400 g tin
- Ingredients: oil palm fruit pulp (58%), water, salt, spices
- Allergens: no allergen listed in the tin's ingredient list
- Storage: keep dry before opening. After opening, 3 days in the refrigerator in a closed, non-metallic container.
- Average nutritional values per 100 g: energy 872 kJ (211 kcal), fat 21 g of which saturates 9.9 g, carbohydrates 3.6 g of which sugars 0 g, fibre 3.2 g, protein 0.9 g, salt 0.33 g
