palm-oil chop

noun

1. a W African dish made with meat and palm oil

Example Sentences

The commonest native dishes are palm-oil chop, a bowl of palm oil, produced by boiling freshly ground palm nuts, in which a fowl or fish is then cooked; and fūfū, “white,” a boiled mash of yams or plantains.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a week after this that the Commissioner was dining in solitude on palm-oil chop—which is a delicious kind of coast curry—and chicken.

From Project Gutenberg

He heaped two large spoonfuls of palm-oil chop upon the plate before the man.

From Project Gutenberg

Fearing the outbreak of renewed violence, hundreds of Ibos last week shuttered their shops in Lagos and crowded into Iddo Motor Park, eating palm-oil chop out of metal bowls and awaiting transportation to take them to the East.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before they had been in the country another week they were vociferously demanding palm-oil chop from John every day.

From Project Gutenberg