How to pronounce Caldou

Caldou is written kaldu where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kaldu/. In plain English letters that is kal-DOO, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Caldou?

Caldou is a soup or stew of Senegal. Where it comes from: Casamance. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes sour and fresh.

Where Caldou comes from

Caldou is one of 13 signature dishes of Senegal on this map.

• Yassa · Main dish · Casamance

  Yassa is chicken or fish marinated for hours in lemon juice, mustard and a mountain of onions, then grilled and simmered in the marinade until the onions turn soft and golden.

• Thiéboudienne ceebu jën · Rice dish · Saint-Louis

  Ceebu jën, written thieboudienne in French, means "rice and fish" in Wolof.

• Café Touba kafe Tuubaa · Drink · Diourbel (Touba)

  Café Touba is a spiced coffee named after Touba, the holy city of the Islamic Mouride brotherhood.

• Mulet à la saint-louisienne mulet farci à la saint-louisienne · Main dish · Saint-Louis & the north (Fouta)

  Mullet stuffed in the Saint-Louis style, mulet farci à la saint-louisienne, is a speciality of Saint-Louis in northern Senegal and an elaborate recipe kept for important occasions.

• Thiakry cakri · Dessert · Saint-Louis & the north (Fouta)

  Thiakry, from the Wolof cakri and also spelled chakery, is a sweet dessert of fine millet or wheat granules, steamed like couscous and mixed with soured milk, yoghurt, milk or sweetened condensed milk, then flavoured with nutmeg or vanilla sugar and often raisins, desiccated coconut or chopped fruit.

• Soupe kandia supu kànja · Soup & stew · All Senegal

  Soupe kandia, or soupou kandja, is an okra stew cooked with palm oil and served with rice.

Food of Senegal

Dishes like Caldou in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Caldou:

• Canh chua · Soup & stew · Mekong Delta, Vietnam

  Canh chua, "sour soup", is native to the Mekong Delta.

• Sopa de cação · Soup & stew · Alentejo, Portugal

  Sopa de cação is a fish soup from the Alentejo made with dogfish, a small shark.

• Cotriade · Soup & stew · Brittany coast (Morbihan), France

  Cotriade, kaoteriad in Breton, is the fish stew of the Breton coast, said to have originated in the Morbihan.

• Hamburger Aalsuppe · Soup & stew · Hamburg, Germany

  Aalsuppe, eel soup, is a soup or stew of northern German cooking made from eel, vegetables and herbs, often with small flour dumplings.