Akara elepo

Name: Akara elepo
Total time: 1800 s
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: Beans; Onions; Ground crayfish (optional); Black pepper (optional); Salt; Palm oil

Mosunmola Adefemi @cook_9667094

Akara fried in palm oil. Akara means beans cake. Epo means palm oil

Mosunmola Adefemi @cook_9667094

Akara fried in palm oil. Akara means beans cake. Epo means palm oil

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Ingredients

30 minutes

Beans
Onions
Ground crayfish (optional)
Black pepper (optional)
Salt
Palm oil

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Soak beans for about 1hour to soften
2

Wash beans with palms to remove skin of beans. Continually drain water and replace till all(or almost all) skin is removed.
3

Blend beans with onions till smooth
4

Pour Palm oil in fry pan and place on cooker. As the oil gets hot, start mixing the akara.
5

Remove the portion you want to fry or that can fill the pan into a seperare bowl and add ground crayfish and black pepper as you mix
6

Once the oil is hot enough(not too hot), Add salt to your mixture. Stir well and begin using a serving spoon to dish the mixture in ball portions to the oil
7

Fry both sides for about 5 minutes each
8

Once the akara balls are ready,serve them on a plate layered with paper towels. This is to drain some oil from the akara.
9

Your Akara is ready. You can eat them with pap, custard, garri or bread