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Street Food
A market-food route through snacks, grills, fritters, breads, and handheld dishes from the AfroKitchen atlas. It currently spans Benin, Egypt, Ivory Coast, and Mauritius. Recipe types include snack, breakfast, and main dish. Cooking times in this collection run about 20-610 minutes.
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Casual hosting, snack boards, small plates, and fast-moving dishes with clear country links.
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Casual hosting, snack boards, small plates, and fast-moving dishes with clear country links.
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snack, breakfast, and main dish
Time window
20-610 minutes
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Benin
Snack
Kuli-Kuli
Crunchy groundnut crackers made by extracting the oil from peanut paste, then shaping and deep-frying the remaining cake. A...
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Egypt
Main dish
Koshari
Egypt's iconic street food — layers of rice, lentils, macaroni, and chickpeas topped with a spiced tomato sauce, garlicky v...
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Ivory Coast
Main dish
Attiéké with Grilled Fish
Fermented cassava attiéké served with grilled fish, onion-tomato salad, cucumber, lime, and hot Ivorian piment.
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Sudan
Main dish
Ful Medames
Sudanese ful medames, slow-cooked fava beans mashed with cumin, lemon, garlic, onion, chile, and sesame oil.
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Togo
Main dish
Koklo Meme
Togolese koklo meme, charcoal-grilled chicken marinated with ginger, garlic, chile, lime, oil, salt, and pepper.
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Tunisia
Breakfast
Lablabi
Tunisian lablabi, garlic-cumin chickpea broth ladled over torn bread with harissa, olive oil, lemon, capers, and optional e...
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Benin
Snack
Grilled Wagasi
Beninese soft white cheese grilled until golden and served with a spicy piment sauce. A unique West African cheese snack wi...
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Botswana
Snack
Vetkoek with Mince
Golden deep-fried bread rolls with a crispy exterior and soft, fluffy interior, split open and filled with savory spiced mi...
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Cape Verde
Snack
Pastel com Diablo Dentro
Cape Verdean fried pastries stuffed with a fiery tuna and tomato filling. The name means "pastry with the devil inside" due...
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Egypt
Breakfast
Ful Medames
Slow-cooked fava beans mashed with garlic, lemon, and cumin, drizzled with olive oil and served with warm pita. Egypt's bel...
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Ghana
Snack
Kelewele
Ghanaian ripe plantain cubes marinated with ginger, garlic, chile, cloves, nutmeg, and salt, then fried until caramelized.
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Ivory Coast
Snack
Alloco
Ivorian fried ripe plantain served hot with onion-tomato piment, a street-food plate that works as snack or side.
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Madagascar
Breakfast
Mofo Gasy
Malagasy sweet rice-flour breakfast cakes, fermented lightly, cooked in round molds, and served warm with coffee or tea.
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Malawi
Breakfast
Mandasi
Malawian mandasi, lightly sweet fried dough made with coconut milk, yeast, cardamom, and a proper rise before frying.
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Mauritius
Snack
Dholl Puri
Mauritian dholl puri, thin yellow-split-pea flatbread folded around butter bean curry, rougaille, chutney, and achard.
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Mauritius
Snack
Gateau Piment
Mauritian gateau piment, crisp chilli fritters made from soaked yellow split peas, herbs, cumin, and green chile.
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Morocco
Breakfast
Msemen
Moroccan msemen, flaky square griddle flatbread laminated with oil, butter, and fine semolina.
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Namibia
Snack
Kapana
Namibian kapana, fast-grilled beef strips tossed with kapana spice and served with tomato, onion, chile, vinegar, and oil s...
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Niger
Snack
Kilishi
Nigerien-Hausa kilishi, paper-thin lean beef dried, coated in spicy groundnut labu paste, dried again, and roasted crisp.
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Nigeria
Snack
Suya
Nigerian suya, thin beef skewers coated in yaji, the smoky Hausa spice blend of kuli-kuli, chile, ginger, onion, garlic, an...
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Rwanda
Main dish
Rwandan Brochettes
Rwandan goat brochettes grilled over charcoal with tomato, onion, garlic, chile, and oil marinade.
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Sierra Leone
Breakfast
Banana Akara
Sierra Leonean banana akara, sweet rice-flour fritters made with ripe banana, sugar, nutmeg, and hot oil.
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Tanzania
Snack
Chipsi Mayai
Tanzanian chipsi mayai is a street-food omelette made with crisp fries, eggs, onion, tomato, and chile.
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Tunisia
Snack
Brik a l'Oeuf
Tunisian brik à l'oeuf, a crisp malsouka pastry filled with egg, tuna, capers, parsley, onion, lemon, and harissa.
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Uganda
Snack
Rolex
Ugandan rolex, a hot chapati rolled around an egg omelette with onion, tomato, cabbage, and pepper.
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Zambia
Snack
Chikanda
Zambian chikanda, African polony made from wild orchid tuber powder, ground peanuts, baking soda, chile, and salt.
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Zimbabwe
Snack
Madora
Zimbabwean madora, dried mopane worms soaked, fried crisp, and cooked with onion, tomato, garlic, chile, and optional peanuts.
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