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🇬🇭Ghana

Akara

Àkàrà

Peeled black-eyed beans ground with onion and pepper, whipped until airy and deep-fried in balls, eaten hot for breakfast with pap or bread.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Akara Elepo

A palm-oil-fried akara variation with a deeper colour and roasted, savoury bean flavour.

🇹🇬Togo

Alloco

Ripe plantain cut into thick slices and fried in red palm oil until the sugars catch, served with raw onion and a chilli sauce.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Funkaso

A Hausa savoury fritter made from fermented grain batter and served with pepper or sauce.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Kokoro

A Nigerian snack of fried cornmeal sticks, savory, crunchy, and often seasoned with pepper or ginger.

🇬🇭Ghana

Kuli Kuli

Groundnut paste with the oil pressed out, spiced and deep-fried into hard rings or sticks, eaten alone or crumbled over other food.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ojojo

A Yoruba water yam fritter, grated and spiced with pepper and onion, deep-fried until crisp, served with a pepper sauce or pap.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Puff Puff

Balls of sweetened yeast batter dropped into hot oil by hand and fried until deep brown and hollow inside.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Roasted Plantain

Bọ̀lì

Firm plantain roasted whole over open coals until blackened outside, split and eaten with roasted groundnuts or pepper sauce.