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Ofada rice (upper right) served in traditional style with fried plantain and beef Ofada rice. Ofada rice is a Yoruba dish. It is the name of an indigenous rice from a small community called Ofada, located in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.
A Nigerian dish of millet pancakes containing millet, butter and sugar. Ga'at: Ethiopia and Eritrea: A stiff porridge, made traditionally with barley flour, [4] though in many communities wheat flour is often used. Garri: Cameroon, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Togo, Ghana (in Ghana it is known as gari) A popular West African food made from ...
Plantain mosa is a Nigerian snack which is a component of small chops. Other components of small chops include grilled chicken, spring roll, samosa and puff puff. [1]Mosa is similar to the Ghanaian Tatale except that it is made with over-ripe plantain, eggs and flour while the latter is made with same plantain, ginger and spices.
A samosa (/ s ə ˈ m oʊ s ə /) (listen ⓘ) ( Persian: سمبوسه) from the Persian word sambosag (سنبوسگ) (meaning 'triangular pastry') is a fried South Asian [2] and West Asian snack. It is a pastry with a savory filling, mostly vegetables , spiced potatoes , onions , and peas , but also meat or fish .
Puff-puff is a traditional snack made of fried dough and eaten across Africa, especially in the west of the continent. The name "puff-puff" is from Nigeria, but many other names and varieties of the pastry exist (see below).
Suya, also known as Tsire, is a traditional Hausa (Nigerian) smoke-grilled spiced meat on skewer. Suya is generally made with thin-sliced spiced beef, lamb, goat, ram, or chicken arranged on wooden skewers. Organ meats such as kidney, liver and tripe as well as other types of meats and seafood (shrimp) are also sometimes used. [1]
The meat is boiled until tender inside a pot; a pressure cooker is mostly used due to the toughness of goat meat. [4]Grated onion, seasoning, pepper and salt are added to thickened palm oil made from adding a mixture of sieved potash and water to palm oil in another pot entirely.
Akara (as it is known in southwest Nigeria) a recipe taken to Brazil by the enslaved peoples from the West African coast. It is called "akara" by the Yoruba people of West Africa, "kosai" by the Hausa people of Nigeria, and "koose" in Ghana. It is a popular breakfast dish, eaten with millet or corn pudding.