Cooking Liberia
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The staple food is rice, cooked with different foods like dried fish. Fish can be served with sweet potatoes cooked in coconut cream or shrimps cooked in palm oil. There is chicken soup, cabbage cooked with bacon or pig's trotters and fried plantains. The national dish is goat soup. Fufu is a popular dish served with palava sauce, spinach and meat stew. Liberianslove sweetened desserts like sweet potato, coconut or pumpkin cakes. Liberian rice bread made with banana puree is very sweet. Peanuts are used in all varieties of cookies and desserts. As for drinks, there's a lot of palm wine and ginger beer, and Liberian local coffee is said to be excellent.