15 Bold and Flavorful West African Plant-Based Recipes! – One Green Planet

With 16 nations encompassing West Africa, you recognize the dishes in West African delicacies are stuffed with taste and deliciousness! Right here at One Inexperienced Planet, we love worldwide dishes. In the event you aren’t conversant in worldwide cuisines, we extremely advocate you strive completely different meals everytime you get an opportunity. However after all we encourage you to strive vegan variations. And possibly you’re from West Africa your self and discover it tough to search out vegan recipes of your basic favorites. We will help you out with these 15 daring and flavorful vegan West African recipes from the Meals Monster App.

1. Spicy West African Chickpea and Kale Curry

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Who’s down to do that Spicy West African Chickpea and Kale Curry by Elsie Kriz for lunch or dinner? Loaded with some potatoes, kale, and spice in addition. There’s something very fulfilling a couple of meal you may whip up in half-hour and get the household fortunately fed in little to no time. Nutritious, scrumptious and doubtless the very best leftovers to your subsequent day soup and sandwich brunch.

2. West African Peanut Stew

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In the event you’re the sort of one who likes to eat spoonfuls of peanut butter out of the jar, you then’ll take pleasure in this West African Peanut Stew recipe by Nicole Fraser. This recipe is wholesome, low-cost, and extremely scrumptious.

3. Jollof Rice: West African Rice With Harissa and Baharat

Supply: Jollof Rice: West African Rice With Harissa and Baharat

Jollof Rice is a beloved West African dish; pleasant and scrumptious and a favourite at gatherings and celebrations! This specific recipe by Elsa Brobbey has roasted bell peppers, which add a succulent depth and sweetness to the bottom sauce. It additionally has harissa, a spicy chili paste and baharat, a Center Jap spice mix, each of which add heat, zing and that contact of smokiness. Serve this one-pot dish with a facet of candy plantains or your favourite veggies.

4. African Groundnut Stew

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There’s one thing concerning the mixture of candy potatoes and greens that’s notably scrumptious – and nutritious. Black eyed peas are a conventional West African staple, and add an earthy taste plus a number of protein to this dish. This African Groundnut Stew recipe by Cathy Elton is simple to play with to create your individual favourite model of groundnut stew. For example, carrots can take the place of the candy potatoes, and cabbage or okra can change the collards. Serve the stew with brown basmati rice or entire wheat couscous.

5. Baked Jollof Rice

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Jollof rice is a well-liked West African one-pot rice dish that mixes lengthy grain rice with tomatoes and olive oil. It’s usually served with fried plantains, vegetabes, or protein, relying on which nation you’re in. This Baked Jollof Rice by Elsa Brobbey is a basic reimagined as a casserole. The feel is near-perfect and the flavour is pleasant savory.

6. Banana Akaras

Supply: Banana Akaras: Sierra Leone Banana Fritters

Akaras seem in a mess of recipes all through the world, each candy and savory. These Banana Akaras by Mike Benayoun are a favourite breakfast in Sierra Leone. Mild and fluffy, but additionally gluten-free, the style and texture of those fritters is like banana pancakes mixed with doughnuts. They’re additionally prepared in simply 20 minutes, from begin to end, so that they’re the right breakfast to your days off the place you wish to cook dinner your self breakfast, however don’t wish to spend your whole morning within the kitchen.

7. Beju

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Beju, a sort of of coconut cookie broadly identified in Nigeria, additionally appear to be widespread within the northeast of Brazil underneath the identify bijus or tapioquinhas. Over there, these cookies embody numerous fillings corresponding to dulce de leche, jam, compote or butter. In Nigeria, these cookies are made with solely three components: cassava root, coconut, and sugar. This can be a dessert that may even attraction to gluten and grain illiberal individuals, because it accommodates no wheat flour. Do this recipe by Mike Benayoun!

8. Akara

Supply: Akara: Nigerian Fried Bean Balls

Akara are deep-fried bean fritters, standard in West African nations and Brazil. Black-eyed peas are the most typical selection of bean for this crispy snack, however different beans, every with their very own taste or texture, will be experimented with till you discover your favourite. Akara will be loved as a snack or appetizer with a facet of savory sauce for dipping and so they’re greatest served whereas nonetheless recent and crispy. Do this vegan model by Mike Benayoun.

9. Chin Chin

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The excellent news is that you simply solely want your fingers to make this Chin Chin recipe by Tomi Makanjuola. This wholesome, oven-baked adaptation of this standard snack is good, crunchy and pleasant. You’ll be proud to share these spherical.

10. Yam and ‘Egg’

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Yam and ‘Egg’ is a staple in most Nigerian households. This vegan model by Tomi Makanjuola is a simple as pie dish that we like to eat for breakfast, lunch OR dinner. Something actually is feasible on the planet of vegan cooking and with a contact of journey and experimentation within the kitchen, there’s no purpose to overlook out on something.

In the event you loved these vegan West African recipes, then we all know you’ll love these 15 Meatless African Recipes!

Study The best way to Cook dinner Plant-Based mostly Meals at Residence

Decreasing your meat consumption and consuming extra plant-based meals is understood to assist with continual irritation, coronary heart well being, psychological well-being, health objectives, dietary wants, allergy symptoms, intestine well being, and extra! Dairy consumption additionally has been linked to many well being issues, together with zits, hormonal imbalance, most cancers, and prostate most cancers, and has many unwanted effects.

For these of you interested by consuming extra plant-based we extremely advocate grabbing our favourite plant-based cookbooks and downloading the Meals Monster App — with over 20,000 scrumptious recipes it’s the largest plant-based recipe useful resource to assist scale back your environmental footprint, save animals, and get wholesome! And, if you are at it, we encourage you to additionally be taught concerning the environmental and well being advantages of a plant-based weight loss program.

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