Jollof rice

Benachin or Jollof rice (English Jollof Rice) is a rice dish that is very common in West Africa Gambia and Senegal, as well as under its English name in Ghana.

Name

Bena -chin in the Wolof language literally means one-pot. Another name for Benachin is Jollof Rice; Jollof (another spelling for Wolof ) suggests that it is a national dish of the Wolof, the move to Gambia and Senegal. But other ethnic groups to prepare this dish for as often and gladly. The addition of tomato paste, the rice is colored red, which explains the name variant Red Rice.

The court

Benachin contains rice and tomato paste usually cassava, this is the common name for cassava in West Africa, as well as sweet potatoes ( sweet potato ). Also, heard in fish. With the sweet potatoes, although the taste is slightly sweet, but is dominated, as in most African dishes, by the sharpness. All participants of the meal usually eat together from the same pot or a plate, traditionally with the right hand because the left hand is considered unclean in Muslim Senegal.