Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kosai / akara / beans cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Kosai / Akara / Beans cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Kosai / Akara / Beans cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Kosai or Akara (Bean Cakes) Nigerians will know these golden bean cakes or fritters as akara or kosai, depending on where you are from. In Northern Nigeria where I grew up they are called kosai. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook kosai / akara / beans cake using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Kosai / Akara / Beans cake:

1. Make ready Beans
2. Get Scotch bonnet
3. Take Red pepper
4. Make ready Garlic
5. Prepare Salt
6. Take cubes Seasoning
7. Make ready Frying oil

Rinse the seed and put into a blender/food processor add onion, scotch bonnet pepper,seasoning and water. 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. Here's a spin on the recipe from our very own Marie Anne Daguidam (most people just call her Anna).

Instructions to make Kosai / Akara / Beans cake:

1. Wash and deskin beans
2. Soak the deskined beans for about an hour. Strain and add fresh garlic, red peppers and scotch bonnets
3. Blend or take to a grinding place
4. Add salt and Stock cubes to taste
5. Whisk the paste until fluffy
6. Fry in hot oil.

Pound or Wash the beans to separate them from the coat. Turn in a bowl and wash until all the peeled beans are completely separated from the coat. 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.

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