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Toubani

Name: Toubani
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Benin
Ingredients: 200g (dried) Black-eyed peas; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 1/2 tsp Salt; 200ml Water; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp Chili powder; 1/2 Onion; To taste Banana Leaves

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Bean-flour dough wrapped in leaves and steamed — a light meal of northern Benin.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Toubani is a steamed bean-flour dish eaten in northern Benin, Togo, and elsewhere: black-eyed pea flour is mixed with water and a little lye (or baking soda), wrapped in leaves, and steamed. Chewy in texture, it's topped with oil, chili powder, and onion and eaten as a light meal or breakfast.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a market in northern Benin, leaf parcels come out of the steamer, and the crumbled bean cakes are drizzled with chili and oil.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Black-eyed peas 200g (dried)
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 200ml
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Chili powder 1/2 tsp
Onion 1/2
Banana Leaves To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the black-eyed peas overnight, skin them, and blend into a smooth paste.
Add the salt and baking powder and beat well to aerate.
Wrap small portions in banana leaves.
Steam for 1 hour.
Open the leaves and top with oil, chili powder, and sliced onion.

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