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Gnamakoudji
Photo: Lamine Kane, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

drink vegan for the recipe below

Gnamakoudji

gnamankoudji

A fiery, refreshing juice of fresh ginger with lemon or pineapple, sweetened and served ice-cold.

Eaten in: Burkina Faso traditional, Côte d’Ivoire traditional shared by 2 countries

Prep
20 min
Cooking
0 min
Resting
1 h
Total
1 h 20 min
Servings
6

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About the dish

Gnamakoudji (also gnamankoudji) is a ginger juice from West Africa, especially popular in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Fresh ginger is grated or blended with water, pressed through a fine sieve, then sweetened and flavoured with lemon or lime juice, sometimes pineapple, mint or vanilla. It tastes fiery, yet it is refreshing because it is drunk ice-cold. It is sold in the street in bags and bottles, offered to guests and at celebrations, and also used as a base for cocktails.

Main ingredients

  • ginger
  • lemon
  • pineapple
  • sugar
  • water

The “vegetarian” and “vegan” labels refer to the recipe shown, not to every version of the dish.

Burkina Faso: Also drunk in Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Senegal.

Côte d’Ivoire: In Côte d’Ivoire sold chilled in small bottles and bags.

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Recipe

Gnamakoudji

https://foodmap.ominuvo.com/dish/gnamakoudji

Ingredients

6 servings

6 servings

The ingredients of this recipe contain none of the allergens on our list (gluten, milk, eggs, nuts, fish and seafood, soy, sesame). Based on the ingredients of this recipe – no substitute for checking labels.

Method

  1. Wash the ginger (no need to peel it), chop it and blend with 500 ml of the water until smooth.

  2. Strain through a fine sieve or muslin, pressing hard on the pulp, and add the rest of the water.

  3. Add the lemon juice, pineapple juice and sugar, stir, chill for an hour and serve over ice with mint.

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