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Akara

Name: Akara
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Nigeria
Ingredients: 300g Dried Black-Eyed Peas (skinned); 1 Onion; 1 Red Chili Pepper; To taste Oil for frying; 1 tsp Salt

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Fluffy fried black-eyed pea fritters — a Nigerian breakfast favorite.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Akara is a traditional snack made by skinning black-eyed peas, grinding them, whipping in air, and frying. Through the Atlantic slave trade it traveled to Brazil and evolved into acarajé. Crisp outside and fluffy inside, it's eaten for breakfast with bread or pap and is popular as a street snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Lagos morning, commuters buy akara as it's fried batch after batch in a big pot at the roadside.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Dried Black-Eyed Peas (skinned) 300g
Onion 1
Red Chili Pepper 1
Oil for frying To taste
Salt 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the black-eyed peas, rub off the skins, and drain.
Blend the peas, onion, and chili into a paste.
Whisk vigorously to work in air and season with salt.
Drop spoonfuls into 170°C oil.
Fry until golden.

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