Bassi-salté

Bassi-salté is a traditional dish consisting of millet couscous that is combined with meat and vegetables. This authentic dish typically contains cooked millet couscous, mutton meatballs known as diaguas, chunks of meat (usually mutton or chicken), sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, cassava roots, carrots, white beans, cabbage, and tomato paste. Besides being savory, the dish is also characterized by a mild sweetness as it includes sweet ingredients such as raisins and dates. It is usually served with the millet couscous and beans mixture on the bottom, topped with meat and vegetable chunks, all generously drizzled with a thick sauce. In Senegal, a glass of milk is usually drunk after finishing this meal.