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Mina's West African & Caribbean Cuisine Event Rentals Catering Mina's West African & Caribbean Cuisine 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 (On Memorial Between Rays Rd & Village Square) 404-508-9691 We’re Open 6 Days A Week! Monday – Thursday Noon - 9:00pm | Friday Noon – 12:00 am Saturday Noon – 9:00 pm Snapper with Rice & Peas Collard Greens Serving Authentic West African Cuisine in Atlanta since 1996! Event Rentals Catering We also Cater your Special Occasions Connect with MinasCuisine FaceBook: MinasCuisine Twitter: @MinasCuisine Gmail: [email protected] 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 | 404-508-9691 West African Cuisine Sales Tax is added to all menu items. Spinach Greens Mina Special Rice w/ Tilapia Spinach steamed with onion, smoked (Fried or Grilled) turkey & chicken. Served with rice. "Dry Rice" Rice infused with Mina's 7 Small $8.99 Large $12.00 spice blend. Served with fried tilapia. Tilapia can also be grilled by request – Collard Greens please allow 25 minutes for grilling. Steamed with onion, smoked turkey & Large $12.00 chicken. Served with rice Small $8.99 Large $12.00 Okra Sauce Served with Rice or Fufu Plantains & Fried Tilapia w/Stew Okra sautéed with dried fish, hen & Plantains deep fried & served with beef, served with your choice of rice & fried fish, Mina's signature stew and or fufu. Large $12.99 pepper sauce. Small $10.00 Large $12.00 Fried Okra Served with Rice or Fufu Check Rice with Stew Fried okra immersed in a savory (Fish and Chicken) sauce. Served with your choice of rice Seasoned rice mixed with jute leaves or fufu. and spinach, served with Mina's Small $10.00 Large $13.99 signature stew with your choice of chicken or fish. Cassava Leaf & Rice Small $10.00 Large $12.00 Cassava leaves cooked with onions and peppers, then sautéed in palm oil Mina's Signature Stew dry fish, hen, & beef A savory medley of bell peppers, Small $12.00 Large $14.59 onions, tomatoes, chicken and fish simmered in vegetable oil Served with your choice of plantains, steam rice or check rice Small $8.99 Large $12.00 We also Cater your Special Occasions Connect with MinasCuisine FaceBook: MinasCuisine Twitter: @MinasCuisine Gmail: [email protected] 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 | 404-508-9691 Palaver Sauce & Rice or Fufu Jute (palaver) leaf cooked and Pepper Soup & Fufu or Rice sautéed in palm oil with dry fish, hen, Rich, savory pepper soup is stocked beef, shrimp, & cow foot. with chicken, beef, dry fish or tripe, Served with rice or fufu. fresh fish seasoned with hot pepper. Small $10.00 Large $13.99 Served with fufu or rice. On the side: Traditional Liberian Toborgee & Rice accompaniments of pepper sauce, Bitter balls simmered in palm oil, dried bitter ball sauce and benin seeds fish, hen and beef. (toasted sesame seeds). Served with Rice. Large $14.00 Small $10.00 Large $13.59 Mina's Jollof Rice Palm Butter with Rice or Fufu Vegetarian Option Available A thick palm-nut based stew with fish, White rice simmered in a tomato dried fish, hen and chicken. based sauce with mixed vegetables. Small $10.00 Large $12.00 Served vegetarian style, or with your choice of chicken or beef. Small $10.00 Large $12.00 We also Cater your Special Occasions Connect with MinasCuisine FaceBook: MinasCuisine Twitter: @MinasCuisine Gmail: [email protected] 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 | 404-508-9691 Cuisine Afrique De L'Ouest Francophone From the Kitchen of Francophone West Africa Sales Tax is Added to All Prices Acheke / Athiéké au Poisson Mafe (Peanut Butter Stew) Braise Lamb and peanut stew (Acheke w/ Grilled or Fried Fish) Rice $13.00 Fufu $15.00 Lightly-seasoned couscous served with marinated, grilled onions, tomatoes and Okra pepper. Served w/tilapia grilled or fried. Soup served with Fufu or white rice $15.00 Acheke Only Fufu: $15.00 Rice: $12.00 $17.00 Acheke and Plantain Thieb Yapp Acheke / Athiéké au Poulet Braisé Jollof Rice, lamb and mixed vegetables (Acheke w/ Grilled Chicken) $12.00 Lightly-seasoned couscous served with marinated, grilled onions, tomatoes and Thieboudienne pepper. Served w/tilapia grilled or fried. Fish, rice and tomato sauce in a savory $15.00 Acheke Only stew. $13.00 $17.00 Acheke and Plantain Dibi / Debee (Grilled Lamb) Benachin Grilled Lamb served solo or with Plantain Jollof Rice w/Grouper Fish and Vegetables $12.00 $10.00 Cassava Leaves (Francophone ) Potato Greens w/Rice $12.00 (w/ Rice) $12.00 We also Cater your Special Occasions Connect with MinasCuisine FaceBook: MinasCuisine Twitter: @MinasCuisine Gmail: [email protected] 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 | 404-508-9691 Ghanaian Cuisine Goat pepper soup with Rice (Nkraka) .................................................. $12.00 Goat pepper soup with Fufu (Nkraka) .................................................. $15.00 Groundnut soup .................................................................................. $8.00 Palmnut smoke fish, beef ..................................................................... $8.00 Okra soup or stew (fish, crab, tripe, smoked turkey) ................................ $8.00 Nigerian Cuisine Nigerian Stews Other Nigerian Menu Items All Nigerian Stews served with mixed meats (goat, hen, cow, feet, tripe & stock fish) Iyan (Yam Flour), Veg Stew $9.00 Efo Stew w/Pounded Yam Served with mixed meats $15.00 Fried Mixed Meat served with Plantains or Beans Combo Efo/Okra Stew w/Pounded $12.00 Yam Served w/ mixed meats $17.00 Plantains, Beans, Stew $10.00 Ewedu Stew w/Pounded Yam Served with mixed meats Jollof Rice $15.00 with Shrimp and Chicken $15.00 Okra Stew w/ Pounded Yam Served with mixed meats Peanut Stew w/Fufu or Rice $15.00 Fufu: $15.00 Rice: $12.00 Egusi Stew & Spinach Grilled Snapper or Tilapia Savory spinach stew thickened with $12.00 ground melon seeds. $15.00 Pieces of assorted Meat $10.00 We also Cater your Special Occasions Connect with MinasCuisine FaceBook: MinasCuisine Twitter: @MinasCuisine Gmail: [email protected] 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 | 404-508-9691 Caribbean Cuisine All entrees are served with steamed veggies, rice and peas. Veggies ......................................................................... Sm $6.50 Lg $10.50 Jerk Chicken ................................................................... Sm $6.50 Lg $10.50 Curried Chicken .............................................................. Sm $6.50 Lg $10.50 Oxtails ........................................................................... Sm $9.50 Lg $12.99 Appetizers & Dessert Fried Plantain ....................... $5.00 Degue ................................. $3.00 Coco Bread ......................... $1.00 Moin Moin ............................. $2.00 Beef or Chicken Patties ......... $2.00 Pepper wings ....................... $8.00 Rice/PLantina Atcheke ........... $4.00 (with Coco-Bread or Fries) Drinks Corona ...................................... $3.50 Bissap / Ginger Juice ................. $3.00 Becks ....................................... $3.50 (Ginger Beer, etc.) ..................... $1.75 Guinness ................................... $3.50 Bottled Juices ............................ $2.00 Heineken ................................... $3.50 Bottled Water ............................ $1.00 Bud, Bud Light, Miller ................. $3.00 Wines - Single-Serve Bottles ....... $3.50 Michelob ................................... $3.00 (White Zinfandel, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Moscato) We also Cater your Special Occasions Connect with MinasCuisine FaceBook: MinasCuisine Twitter: @MinasCuisine Gmail: [email protected] 5439 Memorial Drive | Stone Mountain, GA 30083 | 404-508-9691 .
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