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Akassa

Tangy fermented corn dough wrapped in leaves, base for sauces

Benin and Togo Main Vegetarian

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History

Steamed balls of fermented maize dough wrapped in leaves, a Fon staple that arrived with maize after sixteenth-century Portuguese contact.

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What is Akassa?

Akassa is a main from Benin: tangy fermented corn dough wrapped in leaves, base for sauces. Steamed balls of fermented maize dough wrapped in leaves, a Fon staple that arrived with maize after sixteenth-century Portuguese contact.

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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