Must try dishes when visiting Guinea

Patates is a traditional African dish from Guinea. Sweet potatoes, oil, and salt are used to make it. The sweet potatoes are sliced into wedges and cooked in hot oil until crisp and deep orange in color. This meal is often eaten as a snack and is available in markets and roadside vendors around the country. Patates are frequently accompanied by an oily sauce composed of tomatoes, onions, and fish sauce. Fried sweet plantains are more popular in Guinea than potatoes. There's also loco, a southern Guinean version of patates that involves frying plantain slices in palm oil.

Yétissé is an African dish that originated in Guinea. This stew is made using tuna, tilapia, or cod, as well as vegetables including eggplant, carrots, onions, garlic, and cassava, as well as tomatoes, tomato paste, stock cubes, palm oil, hot peppers, ginger, okra, and rice. The stew is cooked until the veggies are soft, and the browned fish is added at the end of the cooking time. It is then served with a mixture of mashed okra and white rice. Because this communal dish is designed to be shared, it's usually served on a huge plate with the stew in the center and rice all around it.