Dinner
Peanut Soup
A thick groundnut soup of peanut butter, tomato, onion, ginger and chicken, simmered until rich and orange.
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8 African recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 8 recipes cover 4 of the site’s categories, among them 5 dinners, 1 appetiser or small plate, 1 breakfast and 1 lunch. Of these, 3 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Attieke (20 min), Ugandan Rolex (20 min) and Chipsi Mayai (30 min). For 2, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 4 easy, 3 medium and 1 hard.
As written, 2 are vegetarian, 3 gluten-free and 3 dairy-free.
African recipes — all 8 recipes
Dinner
Chipsi Mayai
A chips omelette: fried potato chips folded into beaten egg and set in a pan, served with kachumbari-style salad.
Dinner
Attieke
Fine steamed cassava couscous from Côte d'Ivoire, served with a fresh tomato and onion relish and quickly cooked…
Dinner
Ndole
A Cameroonian stew of bitter greens, ground peanuts, beef and prawns cooked in a deep, creamy sauce flavoured with…
Dinner
Bariis Iskukaris
Somali spiced rice cooked in lamb stock with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and cumin, with raisins and fried onions.
Appetizers
Somali Sambusa
Crisp triangular pastries filled with spiced minced beef, leek and green chilli, a Somali staple at Ramadan.
Lunch
Zanzibar Pizza
A paper-thin dough parcel filled with minced meat, egg, onion and cheese, folded into a square and cooked on a hot…
Breakfast
Ugandan Rolex
A chapati rolled around a thin omelette of eggs, tomato, onion and cabbage, a Ugandan street snack whose name comes…