Recipe: Delicious Akara and akamu(pap)

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Recipe: Delicious Akara and akamu(pap) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Akara and akamu(pap). Traditionally processed Ogi, Akamu or Pap with the distinctive sour taste is a great partner to Fried Plantain, Nigerian Pancake, Akara, Fried Yam, Puff Puff etc. Any of these when combined with Akamu, makes a great breakfast meal. Popular Nigerian breakfast food akara and pap are stapled food; akara is a fried bean cake while pap is processed maize when prepared with boiled water turns into a slightly liquid form.

I fry akara all the time and pair with pap (akamu) for breakfast or dinner.

As a Yoruba girl, I call it ogi.

It goes great with akara, moin moin, fried plantain, or even puff puff.

You can cook Akara and akamu(pap) using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Akara and akamu(pap)

  1. You need of beans.

  2. You need of Salt.

  3. It’s of Onion.

  4. Prepare of Fresh pepper.

  5. It’s of Groundnut oil.

  6. Prepare of cksp yellow pap.

Akara (fried beans cake) and pap.

So lately, I have been indulging in pap.

After making the pap, I like adding little sugar to eat and pour my milk on it, stir and it sure does taste, heavenly!.

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Akara and akamu(pap) instructions

  1. Wash beans and remove the back.blend in a mill..

  2. Blend add onion and fresh pepper..

  3. Mix up with warm water but make it a little bit thick.add salt to taste..

  4. Pour in groundnut oil in a pan and heat up for 2minutes.make sure is hot enough..

  5. Make balls of the blended beans and put in the hot oil using your hand to scoope..

  6. Fry for 1minute and use frying spoon to turn the other side to fry as well..

  7. Put paper in a sieve,add select out the akara and put in the sieve to drain the oil..

  8. Mix the yellow pap with ordinary water.make it a little bit watery..

  9. Boil water till is boiled very well.pour inside the pap watch it as you are pouring onces is getting thick.stop..

  10. Lower the heat and place the pap on it..

  11. Then turn gradually for 1minute..

Nothing warms up a Saturday morning like a plateful of old-time Akara served with a bowl of pap (akamu - fermented corn pudding) or stuffed in a freshly baked bread loaf.

They are also good for evening snack appetizer and it can easily be enjoyed as a simple, comforting snack.

The setup on this one is extra-simple: Corn pap, often regarded as akamu, ogi, koko or eko, is a Nigerian fermented cereal pudding made from maize.

This superlight food has been around for decades now, and it is eaten by many people in Nigeria.

Traditionally processed o gi, a kamu or pap has a sour taste and would make a perfect combo with fried plantain, pancakes, Akara, fried yam, okpa, bread, puff puff and beans.