West African Street Food
A West African street-food collection for grills, fritters, fried snacks, drinks, and market-style plates. It currently spans Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, and Senegal. Recipe types include snack, breakfast, and street food. Cooking times in this collection run about 20-435 minutes.
Snack nights, casual parties, street-food boards, and quick links into West African country hubs.
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A West African street-food collection for grills, fritters, fried snacks, drinks, and market-style plates. It currently spans Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, and Senegal. Recipe types include snack, breakfast, and street food. Cooking times in this collection run about 20-435 minutes.
When to use West African Street Food
Snack nights, casual parties, street-food boards, and quick links into West African country hubs.
snack, breakfast, and street food
20-435 minutes
Dishes inside West African Street Food
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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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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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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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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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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
Street food
Abacha
Igbo cassava salad tossed with palm oil dressing, ugba, fish, crayfish, onion, garden egg, and utazi.
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Nigeria
Breakfast
Akara
Nigerian black-eyed pea fritters blended with onion and pepper, whipped light, then fried until crisp outside and fluffy in...
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Nigeria
Street food
Boli
Nigerian roasted plantain served hot with groundnuts or a spicy pepper sauce.
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Nigeria
Breakfast
Masa
Northern Nigerian fermented rice cakes cooked in small wells until lightly crisp outside and soft inside.
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Nigeria
Breakfast
Okpa
Eastern Nigerian Bambara nut pudding steamed with palm oil, pepper, onion, and salt until firm and tender.
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Nigeria
Snack
Puff Puff
Soft Nigerian fried dough balls made from yeasted flour batter, lightly sweetened and fried until golden.
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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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São Tomé and Príncipe
Snack
Banana Assada
Banana Assada is a snack with ripe or green bananas, lime and chili. Serve
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Senegal
Street food
Fataya
Senegalese fried pastries filled with spiced fish or meat and served with tomato-onion dipping sauce.
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Senegal
Street food
Ndambe
Senegalese black-eyed pea stew simmered with tomato, onion, chile, and spices, often served in bread.
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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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Sierra Leone
Snack
Binch Akara
Sierra Leonean black-eyed bean fritters, whipped light and fried until crisp, often sold with onion gravy or bread.
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Sierra Leone
Snack
Oleleh
Oleleh is a snack with black-eyed pea paste, palm oil and onion. Serve
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Start with Kuli-Kuli, Grilled Wagasi, Pastel com Diablo Dentro, then use the country links and related dishes to build a complete table.
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Senegal, Cape Verde
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