Akara is one of the most popular breakfast staples in Nigeria. It is made with a unique combination of Bean paste, Onion, Pepper, Tiger Ginger Powder, and Salt. Akara and Pap is a typical weekend breakfast in every Nigerian home. It is also a popular Nigerian street food made from deep-fried bean batter. Every morning and evening, Akara sellers are seen frying their commodities with clusters of people waiting to eat them hot. Akara is also known as Bean Fritters amongst other slangs that Nigerian would rather nickname them by. It can be eaten as a snack, appetiser or as a breakfast dish, served with Vegetable Sauce, Pap, Custard or Oatmeal.

Akara is also a superb street food as sellers can be found frying them at different hours of the day. Foodies let’s get the ball rolling at Tiger Kitchen.

Ingredients

3 Cups of Beans
Onion
Tiger Ginger Powder
One raw hot pepper (Ata rodo) – chopped
One Bell Pepper
Salt
Vegetable Oil for deep frying
Direction

Pick and wash your beans, then soak in lukewarm water for 5 minutes. You can use your hand or electric blender to peel the beans. To achieve this, pour the beans in your electric blender and gently control the pulse function of your blender until the peel or chaff is completely out of the beans. When this is done, go ahead and blend with a mill or the electric blender until its smooth and set aside.

Blend the bell pepper, onion and scotch bonnet roughly with as little water as you can and set aside.

Now, you need to whisk or use a wooden spoon to stir your Akara batter for about 10 minutes or until the batter is almost double the size. This allows you to incorporate air for a fluffy and plump akara. If this is not done properly, you may come out with a flat akara.

Next, add the blended pepper, Tiger Ginger Powder, and Salt into the batter and mix lightly.

Now, set a deep frying pan on medium heat and add enough vegetable oil to deep fry the Akara balls, make sure the heat isn’t too high and not too low either. When it’s hot, begin to scoop the batter into the oil.

Fry till golden brown, this should take 3-4 minutes, remember to turn them over for even frying. Lift the Akara balls out with a frying spoon and drain on kitchen paper towels.

Repeat the process until everything is fried.

You can opt to genuinely enjoy it with vegetable sauce, pap or oatmeal.

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