This lets eat very delicious food with cool protein.
The food we are looking at is Akara this is common in all part of Nigeria and is alsoknow as Bean Cakes, Bean Ball and Portuguese called it Acaraje, this is Nigeria breakfast recipe that is made with beans.
Lets Cook Our Akara
Firstly, yo need to understand that the beans coat must be removed before the Akara is being made. You dont need to preserve the beans in a fridge, because fresh peeled beans usually sweet when made immediately.
Ingredients you need for Akara
Check out the ingriedent needed
* A cup of Beans (Brown beans is usually sweet)
2 Chilli peppers
1 Big Onion
Salt to taste
Vegetable Oil
Process
Cut the pepper and onions into desirable sizes.
Soak the beans in the water for about 2hrs after the coat has been removed and blend the beans, Do not add to much of water kindly note the less water you added during the grinding the more the beans batter will stay together during frying thereby spatter.
Put some vegetable oil in a pot and set it on cooker to heat up.
Stir up the grinded beans make sure you apply some pressure so that you can energize the particles of the beans puree. keep stirring till the grounded beans appeas whiter and you can perceive the peculaiar sweet aroma.
Now check the heated oil and make sure is hot enough to sizzle. The beans cake will spatter immediatey the beans batter hits the hot oil.
Add the onions and pepper to the beans puree and stir well.
Provide salt to your taste and stir again
Scoop the mixture using table spoon and gently pour this into the oil. In order to reduce spatter dip the spoon a little bit into the oil.
Fry till brown and flip to fry the top side too, when you sense the Akara balls ar brown all over remove to avoid burnt.
You can serve the following with Akara when eating
Akamu (Pap)
Custard
Agege bread ( If you are not in Lagos Nigeria you wont understand this bread)
Agege bread is one of the most popular Nigerian bread, known for its soft, stretchy and chewy texture.
Enjoy your meal.
