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Rice Akara

Name: Rice Akara
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Sierra Leone
Ingredients: 250g Rice flour; 2 (very ripe) Bananas; 4g Dry yeast; 50g Sugar; A pinch Nutmeg; 150ml Water; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Rice flour and ripe banana mixed and fried into balls — a sweet Sierra Leonean breakfast fritter.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Rice akara is a breakfast staple in Sierra Leone: rice flour is mixed with ripe banana, sugar, nutmeg, and yeast, left to rise, then rolled small and fried. Unlike bean akara, it's sweet and fluffy. It's also made for weddings, celebrations, and Muslim festivals.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sierra Leonean street in the morning, a stall woman fries round fritters and sells them in paper bags to commuters.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Rice flour 250g
Bananas 2 (very ripe)
Dry yeast 4g
Sugar 50g
Nutmeg A pinch
Water 150ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mash the bananas smooth.
Add the rice flour, yeast, sugar, nutmeg, and lukewarm water to make a thick batter.
Let rise 1 hour.
Scoop rounded spoonfuls into 170°C oil.
Fry, rolling them, until golden.

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