African cuisine is a mix of ingredients such as cereal grains, vegetables, meat products, and locally available fruits. The traditional preparation features mostly milk, curd, and whey products in some parts of the continent. If you’re looking for a food adventure, then let’s try to explore more about this cuisine and find out why more people are interested to try it.

This dish is made from melon seeds that have been dried and ground. The soup is typically added with leafy vegetables, meat or fish. It is popular in Nigeria and ideally eaten in combination with pounded yam. 

The dish is a combination of rice, fish and tomato sauce with spiced onions, carrots, cabbage, cassava and peanut oil as added flavors. Surprisingly, this dish is similar to Savannah red rice, which is a common dish in the southern part of the U.S and believed to be adapted by the Creole people. 

It’s considered a comfort food with intense flavors served throughout neighboring African countries. The only ingredient essentially present in this dish is pepper and the amount of pepper depends on each personal taste. 

A morning meal called waakye is popular in Ghana that is also eaten anytime of the day. It’s a combination of beans, rice and ground cassava known as gari, stew and spaghetti. It is best served with fish, meat or boiled egg.

It’s a stew of slow cooked corn, cassava, sweet potato, fish or meat. It is referred to as the country’s national dish and of the ten inhabited islands, 9 island have their own version of cachupa.

A staple food common to West Africa and Central Africa is African fufu. Making this dish is by mixing and pounding separate equal portions of cassava and green plantain flour thoroughly with water. Fufu is best served with groundnut soup, palm nut soup or light soup.

It’s a spicy and aromatic dish made with roma tomatoes, red bell peppers and and seasoned chicken. This is a popular in Nigeria, a classic dish that can be eaten with many things. 

This dish is deep-fried pulled dough balls that has a crunchy outer crust but light and airy at the center. The taste is relatively similar to doughnuts, the only difference is its outer crust being crunchy. This is a sweet snack common throughout Africa and you have the option to dust the fried dough balls in powdered sugar.