Dish

Sangah

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How it's prepared

Sangah (Cameroonian Corn and Cassava Leaf)

Sangah is a Cameroonian dish made with corn, cassava leaf, and palm kernel extract.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg palm nut cream
  • Water
  • 500 g cassava leaves, well-pounded
  • Sweet corn kernels
  • Homi

Method

  1. Combine the water and palm nut cream in a pot. Boil for a few minutes.
  2. Stir in the pounded cassava leaves. Cover with the lid, and boil for 20 minutes.
  3. Stir in as much corn as desired. Season to taste with homi.
  4. Serve hot.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook page “Sangah (Cameroonian Corn and Cassava Leaf)”, revision of 25 May 2025, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Recipes there are written by volunteers: quantities and times are a guide.

From Wikipedia

Sangah is a food made with maize, cassava leaf, and palm nut juice in Cameroonian cuisine. The leaves are mashed and the cooked mixture becomes a thick stew. It is often accompanied by rice or boiled plantain. It is a traditional food.

This record is provisional: it was compiled from the cited sources but has not yet been checked by an InsideKamer editor.

Sources

  1. 1.
    Cookbook:Sangah (Cameroonian Corn and Cassava Leaf)
    Wikibooks (English)Published 25 May 2025Last verified: 21 October 2026
  2. 2.
    Sangah
    WikidataLast verified: 21 October 2026
  3. 3.
    Sangah
    Wikipedia (English)Published 6 May 2026Last verified: 21 October 2026

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