Cameroonian cuisine combines these with vegetables, meats, and spices. Local cooks marinate beef, chicken, or fish in oil, ginger, and hot peppers before grilling them over an open fire and serving them with chili sauce. Cameroonians favor ntomba nam, a peanut-based paste served with meat, and mbanga, a palmnut soup which they flavor with smoked fish.
Palm wine is the country's most plentiful beverage.