Local Dishes

1. Liboke

   Liboke (fish or meat wrapped in leaves and cooked over a fire)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   From the ln.wikipedia article Liboke, which says it is wrapped in leaves, cooked over charcoal or wood fire and eaten with kwanga, fufu or makemba; the dictionary also lists liboke as a packet.

2. Liboke ya mbisi

   Fish liboke

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. The ln.wikipedia article Liboke lists liboke ya mbisi ya mayi and liboke ya nyama; mbisi means fish.

3. Pondu ya madesu

   Pondu ya madesu (cassava leaves with beans)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   It has an ln.wikipedia article: a dish that combines madesu (beans) and pondu, described as a dish of Kongo Central province.

4. Kwanga

   Kwanga (cassava bread wrapped in leaves)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   From the ln.wikipedia article Kwánga, made from cassava and called an important food for the people of both Congos. In French it is chikwangue.

5. Fufu

   Fufu (stiff porridge of cassava or other flour)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   The ln.wikipedia headword is Fufú; the dictionary describes it as semolina or flour, especially of cassava, and the porridge made from it.

6. Madesu

   Madesu (beans)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   The ln.wikipedia headword is the singular Lidɛ́su; madesu is the plural. It describes beans eaten with fufu or kwanga.

7. Makemba

   Makemba (plantains, cooking bananas)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   Based on the ln.wikipedia article Likémba: not sweet, eaten like kwanga or fufu, boiled or fried. Makemba is the plural.

8. Bitekuteku

   Bitekuteku (leafy greens, amaranth)

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   From the ln.wikipedia article Bitekuteku, a leafy vegetable (ndunda) illustrated with Amaranthus species.

9. Bitekuteku na makayabu

   Bitekuteku with salted fish

   Usage

   Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

   Grammar Note

   Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. ln.wikipedia has Baliyaka bitekuteku na makayabu, mbisi to nyama; na means with. Makayabu is salted fish, matching the French poisson salé.

10. Samusa

    Samusa (samosa, a fried pastry with filling)

    Usage

    Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

    Grammar Note

    The ln.wikipedia article Samusa says it is a food that comes from South Asia.

11. Pilipili

    Pilipili (hot pepper, chilli)

    Usage

    Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

    Grammar Note

    A word in the dictionary and ln.wikipedia; the Liboke article also mentions cooking with pilipili.

12. Mafuta ya mbila

    Palm oil

    Usage

    Use it on a menu or at a food stall to name this dish or ingredient.

    Grammar Note

    Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. The ln.wikipedia article Mafúta lists mafúta ma mbíla among cooking oils; the dictionary gives mbila as the nut of the oil palm. Ma and ya both mean of.

13. Nalingi kolia liboke

    I would like to eat liboke

    Usage

    Use it when ordering liboke.

    Grammar Note

    Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. The pattern Nalingi kolia, I want to eat, takes the dish name after it.

14. Nalingi kolia kwanga na madesu

    I would like to eat kwanga with beans

    Usage

    Use it when ordering kwanga together with beans.

    Grammar Note

    Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. Na means with; ln.wikipedia says beans are eaten with fufu or kwanga.

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