Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, beans cake (kosai). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Kosai or Akara (Bean Cakes) Nigerians will know these golden bean cakes or fritters as akara or kosai, depending on where you are from. They are a street or market food, fried up by the women in big pans of hot oil, eaten hot and fresh or wrapped up for a later meal. Pound or Wash the beans to separate them from the coat.

Beans Cake (Kosai) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Beans Cake (Kosai) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have beans cake (kosai) using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Beans Cake (Kosai):

1. Prepare 1 cup beans
2. Prepare 3 cubes maggi
3. Get 3 pieces Red pepper(attarugu)
4. Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. Take Vegetable oil
6. Prepare 1 medium size onion

It is also called Kosai, Bean cake, Acaraje or Beanballs and is mostly made with black-eyed peas (beans) but there are many other types of beans you can use. Akara is a very popular breakfast dish in Nigeria. Nigerian kosai (also called akara) are delicious bean cakes comparable to falafel. These fluffy fried fritters are made from black eyed peas pureed with onions and hot peppers and often served by street vendors.

Instructions to make Beans Cake (Kosai):

1. Suck your beans with water in a clean bowl for 5 minutes. You then pill and remove the coat of the beans, wash it thoroughly and set aside. Wash your red pepper,dice your onion add all together in the washed beans.
2. Put them all together in the blender and blend. Add Maggi, salt and mix them thoroughly. Put your frying pan on cooker and pour the vegetable oil. When the oil is hot, use tablespoon to pour the batter in the hot oil to fry & turn the other side so that it will be fried too.
3. When both sides are well fried. Remove the cake from the frying pan to a colender to drain the oil. Your Kosai is ready..uhmmm yummy😋

Here's a spin on the recipe from our very own Marie Anne Daguidam (most people just call her Anna). Nigerian Kosai (Bean Cakes) Other names for akara include beans cake and Kosai, beans fritters. Akara is just one of the simplest recipes you can fix for breakfast without much waste of time, and you can even make akara recipe with bean flour if don't want to go through the stress of peeling the beans. Watch this video to see how to. Koose is a popular street food in Ghana, and a similar variation is more popularly known as akara in much of West Africa.

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