Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, akara/ kose/beans cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Koose is a popular street food in Ghana, and a similar variation is more popularly known as akara in much of West Africa. In fact, the origins of koose or akara are linked to the Hausa people, who are scattered across West Africa, but are mainly concentrated in Nigeria. Koose (kosai, akara, akla) is made from ground cowpeas or black-eyed peas.

Akara/ kose/beans cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Akara/ kose/beans cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook akara/ kose/beans cake using 5 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Akara/ kose/beans cake:

1. Take 1 cup beans
2. Prepare Onions
3. Make ready Pepper/rodo/Scotch pepper
4. Prepare Water
5. Prepare Oil for frying

Akara (Yoruba name) is fried bean cake. Beans is such an essential part of nutrition in Nigeria, and West Africa as a whole. Traditionally, brown cowpeas and black […] In Africa, there are several types of local food and one of them is the bean cake (Akara in Yoruba dialect). Interestingly, the so-called Akara by the Yorubas, kosai in Hausa, acarajé in Brazil and kose in Ghana is not just a street food or traffic food, but also serves as a religious function or better put serves as food for the gods.

Instructions to make Akara/ kose/beans cake:

1. Soak a cup of beans in water for 5min
2. Wash beans to peel off d outer layer
3. When beans is properly washed and clean, leave in clean water for 30min or keep in the fridge to make the beans soft
4. Wash your pepper and onions
5. Pour beans, pepper and onions into your blender add a little water. (I used this blender)
6. Note: LITTLE WATER. The water must not be much unless you will have unblend beans, your paste won't be smooth, will have so many chunks
7. Add more water gradually as you blend(little at a time) until you get your desired paste
8. Set your pan on low heat, add oil and drop onions wait a while till oil is hot enough for frying
9. Scoop your beans paste into the hot oil, and fry
10. Enjoy your meal.

Akara is a popular Nigerian snack made with beans, also known as bean cakes, bean-balls or bean fritas. To make Akara, you need to, first of all, remove the beans coat just before you make the Akara. Akara - Black Eyed Peas Fritters. Akara, which is also known as black-eyed peas fritters or Acaraje, is a very delicious, deep-fried beans cake made from black-eyed peas paste. It is a vegetarian-friendly meal eaten in most parts of West Africa and Brazil.

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