Akara and pap

Name: Akara and pap
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 6 people
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 5 cups beans; 1 handful pepper; I medium sized onion; 2 cubes maggi cubes; 1 drizzle of salt; 1/4 cup water; Pap (to your measurement); Sugar (go your taste); 1 3/4 bottle veg oil; 2 satchets of Milo and milk

Damilola Kolawole @thedame_006

Saturday morning Nigerian typical breakfast

Damilola Kolawole @thedame_006

Saturday morning Nigerian typical breakfast

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Ingredients

1 hr

6 people

5 cupsbeans
1 handfulpepper
I medium sized onion
2 cubesmaggi cubes
1drizzle of salt
1/4 cupwater
Pap (to your measurement)
Sugar (go your taste)
1 3/4 bottleveg oil
2satchets of Milo and milk

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Steps

1 hr

1

Wash and peel the beans
2

Place in a blender and blend with the pepper and add a little water
3

After blending mix properly (I used a mortar to mix mine) and add the salt and maggi and mix well
4

Place a deep frying pan on fire and add the oil
5

Wait for it to get really hot and then using a spoon scoop the akara into the pan
6

Let it float up and then use a fork to pierce the akara balls one by one and turn(this is so the inside gets done properly)
7

Wait till it turns golden brown and remove.place in a sieve or newspaper to drain out the oil
8

Repeat till all the batter is finished
9

For the pap, empty the pap into a bowl, add water gradually till it's not too thick nor too watery
10

Place water to boil,once boiled pour gradually into the mixed pap until it thickens
11

Mix it well and add in the sugar Milo and milk (optional) and serve with the akara
12

Your Saturday morning breakfast is ready