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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.

🇹🇬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.

🇹🇬Togo

Bean Fritters

Gawou

Crispy Togolese bean fritters made from skinned black-eyed peas blended with onion, chilli, and salt, then deep-fried into golden balls; a popular morning or afternoon market snack.

🇬🇭Ghana

Bofrot

Botokoin

Sweetened yeast dough dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and fried into round, chewy balls.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Fry Fry

A mixed Sierra Leonean street-food platter of assorted deep-fried bites: plantain chips, bean fritters, fried potatoes, fish balls, and chicken; customers pick their favourites and dip them in spicy onion gravy.

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Puff Puffs

Gato

Fried dough balls with yeast, sugar, salt, and sometimes onion; crispy outside, soft inside; a popular Guinean snack and breakfast item; called gato locally.

🇳🇪Niger

Koura-Koura

Peanut snack sticks or rings made from oil-extracted peanut paste, spiced and fried; the Burkinabè name for kuli-kuli; a crunchy, protein-dense snack.

🇬🇭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.

🇲🇱Mali

Malian Puff Puff

Mikate

A popular Malian street food of deep-fried dough balls; flour, sugar, and yeast dough fried until golden brown; dusted with powdered sugar and served hot; widely available across Mali; an inexpensive snack; similar to puff-puff across West Africa; the Malian version of this beloved fried treat.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Peanut Cake

Kanya

A crumbly, sweet Sierra Leonean peanut snack made by pounding rice flour, peanuts, and sugar into small, dense cakes or balls; an energy-boosting street snack sold by women balancing trays on their heads.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Plantain Chips

Thin green-plantain slices fried crisp as a Sierra Leonean market and roadside snack.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Puff Puff

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

🇬🇭Ghana

Roasted plantain

Kofi brokeman

Ripe plantain roasted whole over charcoal until blackened and sold with a handful of raw groundnuts.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Roasted Plantain

Bọ̀lì

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

🇹🇬Togo

Togolese Banana Fritters

Klako

Togolese banana fritters: ripe bananas mashed with a little flour and sugar, shaped into small patties and deep-fried until caramelised and golden; a favourite sweet snack.