Ablo
Togolese · 2 h 10 min · 269 kcal · Vegan
Culinary region
West African recipes
Rich one-pot soups and stews served with starchy 'swallows' or rice, built on palm oil, tomatoes, peppers, groundnuts and fermented seasonings such as locust beans.
FriendsPantry has 71 West African recipes, mostly stews & braises, main courses and soups, from Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire. Popular dishes include Jollof rice, Egusi soup and Efo riro.
71 recipes · associated with Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire · West African cuisine: history, staples and spices
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All West African recipes
Acarajé
Brazilian · 1 h 20 min · 534 kcalAgege bread
Nigerian · 3 h 35 min · 210 kcal · Vegetarian
Ago glain
Beninese · 1 h 5 min · 344 kcal
Akara
Nigerian · 55 min · 338 kcal · Vegan
Aloko
Ivorian · 25 min · 356 kcal · Vegan
Amiwo
Beninese · 1 h 20 min · 649 kcalAttiéké with grilled fish
Ivorian · 1 h 15 min · 644 kcal
Azi dessi with fufu
Togolese · 1 h 30 min · 749 kcal
Babenda
Burkinabè · 55 min · 297 kcalBanku with okra stew
Ghanaian · 1 h 5 min · 640 kcalBenachin
Gambian · 1 h 50 min · 534 kcal
Bissap
Senegalese · 2 h 45 min · 78 kcal · Vegan
Cachupa
Cape Verdean · 2 h 15 min · 580 kcalCanja (Cabo Verdean chicken and rice soup)
Cape Verdean · 1 h 10 min · 447 kcalCassava leaf stew
Sierra Leonean · 2 h 10 min · 489 kcal
Chicken yassa
Senegalese · 3 h 30 min · 526 kcal
Chin chin
Nigerian · 1 h 15 min · 308 kcal · Contains egg
Dambou
Nigerien · 35 min · 501 kcal · Vegan
Dodo (fried plantain)
Nigerian · 17 min · 231 kcal · Vegan
Domoda
Gambian · 1 h 45 min · 432 kcal
Efo riro
Nigerian · 1 h 35 min · 402 kcal
Egusi soup
Nigerian · 1 h 40 min · 577 kcalEwa agoyin
Nigerian · 1 h 50 min · 611 kcal
47 more
- Fakoye · Malian
- Fish yassa · Senegalese
- Fonio with peanut sauce · Guinean
- Fouti · Guinean
- Fufu (cassava and plantain) · Ghanaian
- Fura da nono · Nigerien
- Garba · Ivorian
- Gboma dessi · Togolese
- Gnamakoudji (Ivorian ginger juice) · Ivorian
- Groundnut soup (nkatenkwan) · Ghanaian
- Jollof rice · West African
- Kedjenou · Ivorian
- Kelewele · Ghanaian
- Kilishi · Nigerien
- Kontomire stew · Ghanaian
- Kuli-kuli · Beninese
- Liberian pepper soup · Liberian
- Liberian rice bread · Liberian
- Light soup · Ghanaian
- Mafé · Senegalese
- Mauritanian atay (green tea ceremony) · Mauritanian
- Méchoui (Mauritanian roast lamb) · Mauritanian
- Moi moi · Nigerian
- Ndambé · Senegalese
- Nigerian goat meat pepper soup · Nigerian
- Nigerian salad · Nigerian
- Ofada stew with ofada rice · Nigerian
- Palm butter · Liberian
- Pastel com diabo dentro · Cape Verdean
- Potato leaf stew · Sierra Leonean
- Pounded yam · Nigerian
- Puff-puff · Nigerian
- Red red · Ghanaian
- Riz gras · Burkinabè
- Sauce feuille · Guinean
- Shito · Ghanaian
- Sierra Leonean ginger beer · Sierra Leonean
- Superkanja · Gambian
- Suya · Nigerian
- Thiakry · Senegalese
- Thiéboudienne · Senegalese
- Tigadegena · Malian
- Tô with okra sauce · Malian
- Waakye · Ghanaian
- Zobo (Nigerian hibiscus drink) · Nigerian
- Zoom-koom · Burkinabè
- Zrig · Mauritanian