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Beignets Haricots

Name: Beignets Haricots
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Cameroon
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 3 tbsp Sugar; 220ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; 400g Kidney Beans (canned); 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 Chili pepper; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Salt

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⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fried dough balls with stewed beans — Cameroon's favorite breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Beignets-haricots-bouillie (BHB) — 'fritters, beans, and porridge' — is Cameroon's most popular breakfast. Balls of yeasted dough are fried into puffy beignets and served with beans stewed with tomato and chili. They're sold from early morning on street corners all over town.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Yaoundé street in the morning, round dough balls puff up in a pot of oil and are wrapped in paper with a scoop of beans.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 300g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Sugar 3 tbsp
Water 220ml
Oil for frying To taste
Kidney Beans (canned) 400g
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Chili pepper 1
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix flour, yeast, sugar, a pinch of salt, and lukewarm water and let rise for 1 hour.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté chopped onion, tomato, and chili.
Add the beans and a little water, simmer for 15 minutes, and season with salt.
With wet hands, pinch off bite-sized pieces of dough and fry in 170°C oil.
Serve the beignets with the beans.

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