🇲🇱 Malian Cuisine

Sauce Gombo

Okra Sauce

Prep Time 45 min

Servings 6

Difficulty Medium

Calories 358 kcal

A thick, silky okra sauce enriched with smoked fish, tomatoes, and palm oil, delivering a deeply savoury flavour that coats every bite of toh.

Ingredients

1 Season and boil beef until tender, about 30 minutes. Reserve the stock.
2 Heat palm oil in a pot, sauté onion until golden. Add chopped tomatoes and cook 10 minutes.
3 Add dawadawa, scotch bonnet peppers, and bouillon cubes. Stir well.
4 Add chopped okra and cook on medium heat for 15 minutes, stirring frequently to develop the mucilaginous texture.
5 Add cooked beef, smoked fish, and reserved stock. Simmer 10 minutes.
6 Serve hot over toh or rice.

Did You Know?

In Malian cooking, the way okra is cut determines the sauce texture — finely chopped yields maximum sliminess, which is considered a mark of quality.