5 Mouth Watering West African Dishes You Need to Try

If you’re looking to learn more about West African cuisine, here are 5 recipes that will delight your palette and serve as an excellent introduction to one of the continent’s most popular styles of cooking. Kenkey is a typical Ghanaian dish made from fermented white corn, which is widely consumed throughout the country by Ga people from southern Ghana. Kenkey is prepared from fermented ground white corn (maize). Jollof rice is a legendary one-pot dish that’s ubiquitous in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Togo and Sierra Leone. Fufu is a staple in a good number of African countries. This version is made by fermenting cassava (yuca roots) then blending and cooking it. Chicken Yassa is scrumptious West African comfort food that the whole world needs to know about. It is typically prepared using chicken but works just as great with fish. Egusi is the name for the protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (plants of the cucumber and pumpkin family), which after being dried and ground are used as a major ingredient in West African cuisine.

SOURCE: IOL