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🇹🇬Togo

Ablo

Rice or corn flour beignets; steamed then sometimes fried; small, round, slightly sweet; a popular street food; served with sauce or as a snack.

🇬🇭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.

🇹🇬Togo

Galifoto

A savoury Togolese street snack of gari (roasted cassava granules) mixed with pepper, tomato, and fried or grilled giant land snails; chewy, spicy, and filling.

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Banana Fritters

Beignets de banane

Ripe banana fritters with flour, sugar, vanilla, and nutmeg; crispy outside, pillowy soft within; a popular Conakry street snack and breakfast item.

🇬🇳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.

🇬🇭Ghana

Kaklo

Ripe plantain mashed with flour and pepper and fried into small balls, crisper and rounder than tatale.

🇲🇱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.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Puff Puff

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

🇹🇬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.

🇧🇯Benin

Tévi

Fried yam slices; a popular street food across Benin; crispy outside, tender inside; sold in paper cones with pili-pili; a cheap, filling snack.

🇧🇯Benin

Wèli

Fried sweet potato slices; a popular street food across Benin; crispy outside, sweet and tender inside; sold in paper cones; a cheap, filling snack.

🇧🇯Benin

Yovo Doko

Sweet wheat flour beignets (puff-puff style); 'white beignets' in Fon; deep-fried dough balls with yeast, sugar, and salt; a popular Beninese street snack.