1Palm butter
Eaten all over Liberia
Palm nut soup with fish or chicken over rice.
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What to eat in Liberia
The 9 dishes to eat in Liberia
Rice, palm butter and the Americo-Liberian table.
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2Jollof rice
Best: Monrovia
Liberian jollof is cooked with chicken and smoked meat and heavier on pepper.
3A photo like it
4A photo like it
5Fufu with pepper soup
Eaten all over Liberia
Cassava dough with spicy soup.
6Dumboy
Eaten all over Liberia
Boiled cassava pounded into a soft dough and eaten with palm butter or pepper soup.
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8Kala
Eaten all over Liberia
Small fried dough balls, lightly sweet, sold in the morning across Monrovia.
9A photo like itLiberian check rice
Eaten all over Liberia
Rice cooked with jute leaves and okra.
Where to eat in Liberia
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