• Category Archives: Beans Recipes

    Cameroonian Pilé Pilé

    I have to say that the Afrolems community of fans and followers are super amazing when it comes to support. If you are following us on social media, you would have seen during the week I posted my Poulet DG recipe on all the networks. My post invited this new recipe of Cameroonian Pilé Pilé into

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    Frejon Recipe Good Friday Recipe

    It’s Frejon day!!! Happy Good Friday to you all. If you are in a city or country that celebrates Easter be very grateful because as I type this, I am at my desk at the office boo!!! So I am not a total party pooper, let’s move on. I heard about Frejon about 4 years

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    Black Eyed Peas Salad

    A low carbohydrate diet with Nigerian food has to be the hardest thing ever. However, it is not an impossible one. Speaking of low carb diets, it’s time to get on one as summer is fast approaching and no more hiding under jackets and coats. If you would like a low carb nigerian timetable, comment

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    Rice and Peas with Coconut Curry Mackerel

    The internet has been buzzing recently about Jamie Olivers version of Jollof rice and all I can say is as long as recipes are available, they are left to individual interpretation. My dish today is an interpretation of the popular Jamaican rice and peas dish. I have gone to several Jerk chicken spots and their

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    Danwake Recipe

    The first time I heard about Danwake was from one of my hausa friends and she admitted that it was one of her favourite dishes especially served with a very spicy sauce and I use the term sauce loosely. The sauce comprising of oil, pepper, salt. She also said sometimes it is served with lemon

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    Ekuru and Ata Din Din

    There are many recipes in my archives that never made it to the blog last year and Ekuru is one of them also known as Ofuloju. There are really many things to do with Nigerian beans (black eyed peas), we have akara, moin-moin, beans pottage and a host of other things. Ata Din din is

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    Adalu Recipe

    Beans is one of my favorite dishes. I think this has a little bit to do with my dad. He is diabetic and he has a limited amount of dishes he can consume so beans became his best meal. I am certain it was even before diabetes reared its ugly head however, I grew up

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    Rice and Beans

    Rice and beans is a winning combination any day. So I joined this amazing group this year on Facebook called “So you think you can cook” and there is a challenge this week to create a beans recipe. I started thinking a little too deeply about what to create, I started thinking along the lines of

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    Chef of the Week: Tosin Faith- Obe-Ere Recipe

    One of our dearest fans sent in this recipe called Obe – Ere. In some other cultures, it is called Afiame soup but it definitely looks delicious and easy. A little tip however would be to blend a lot of beans powder in advance and put in the fridge so you can always go back

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