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What to eat in Senegal

The 10 best dishes in Senegal

The West African kitchen at its most refined.

1

Thieboudienne

Best: Saint-Louis

Fish stuffed with parsley and chili, cooked with vegetables, then rice in the broth. UNESCO-listed.

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Yassa

Best: Casamance

Chicken or fish in a sauce of slow-cooked onions, lemon and mustard.

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3

Mafé

Eaten all over Senegal

Lamb or beef in a rich peanut sauce, over rice.

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Thiéré

Eaten all over Senegal

Millet couscous with a meat and vegetable sauce.

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Dibi

Best: Dakar

Grilled lamb with onions and mustard, from the dibiterie.

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6

Pastels

Best: Dakar

Fried pastries filled with fish and chili sauce.

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7

Accara

Best: Dakar

Black-eyed pea fritters with a spicy onion sauce.

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8

Thiakry

Eaten all over Senegal

Millet couscous with sweet yogurt.

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9

Bissap

Eaten all over Senegal

Chilled hibiscus drink with mint.

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10

Café Touba

Best: Touba

Coffee spiced with grains of selim.

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Photos: each dish's lead photo on its Wikipedia article (license and author on Wikimedia Commons); "a photo like it" is a food photo of the same kind, not that dish. Cook it opens a recipe in Chef Amazing, or Chef writes one for you. Picked by Chef Amazing, November 2026.