West African Bean Dishes

Beans:

black-eyed peas, red cowpeas, peanuts, fava, locust/dawadawa, bambara

Cookbooks:

• (JSS) Jackson: South of the Sahara
• (CCC) Sitole: Cooking from Cape to Cairo
• (FFIW) Helou: Feast: Food of the Islamic World

Dishes:

• Steamed egusi and black-eyed pea dumplings (JSS)
• Eggplant-Peanut Butter Spread (JSS)
• Creamy peanut sauce (JSS)
• Spicy peanut sauce (JSS)
• Curried cream soup with black-eyed peas (JSS)
• Rice with black-eyed peas (JSS)
• Black-eyed peas and plantains in palm oil (JSS)
• Groundnut chop (peanut butter, meat, fish) (JSS)
• Baked chicken in groundnut sauce (JSS)
• Sunday stew (dawadawa) (JSS)
• Smoked fish with black-eyed peas (JSS)
• Kale with tomato and roasted peanuts (JSS)
• White bean, spinach, and groundnut sauce (JSS)

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Benin

• Kuli-kuli 🔗1
• Ewa aganyin (honey beans) (🔗1 🔗2)

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Burkina Faso

• Babenda (dawadawa, greens, fish) (🔗1)
• Boussan touba (🔗1)

Cameroon

• Beignets haricots (🔗1)
• Koki beans (🔗1 🔗2)
• Tooh-Kooni

Cape Verde

• Cachupa (🔗1)
• Jagacida (🔗1)

The Gambia

• (GC) Daryanani & Shah: The Gambian Cookbook
• Domoda (peanut) (GC, 🔗1 🔗2)
• Mbahal (salted fish, black-eyed peas or locust beans, vegetables) (GC)
• Nyebbeh (cassava, bean, fish) (GC, 🔗1)
• Olele (steamed bean pudding) (🔗1)

Ghana

• (ZGK) Adjonyoh: Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen
• (TGC) Osseo-Asare and Baëta: The Ghana Cookbook
• Chicken and peanut stew (CCC, 🔗1)
• Aboboe (black-eyed peas/bambara beans) (ZGK, TGC, JSS, 🔗1)
• Adayi (black-eyed peas) (TGC, 🔗1)
• Ayikple (adzuki, corn flour, coconut milk, fish) (TGC, 🔗1)
• Yam and plantain peanut curry (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Aprapransa (adzuki, palm fruit) (🔗1)
• Ghana salad (cranberry or white beans) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Three bean salad (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Ghana dhal (yellow split peas) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Nkatse cake (peanut brittle) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Avocado and peanut dip (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Peanut sauce (ZGK, 🔗1)

Greater Accra

• Peanut soup (🔗1)
• Red-Red (black-eyed peas) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Yo-ko-gari (🔗1)

Ashanti

• Peanut soup (🔗1)

Northern Ghana

• Tubaani (TCG, 🔗1)
• Koose (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Waakye (black-eyed peas) (ZGK, TGC, 🔗1)

Upper Eastern Ghana

• Tubaani
• Koko with koose (🔗1)

Guinea

• Kansiyé (1)
• Footi sauce (kidney beans, vegetables) (🔗1)

Ivory Coast

• Maafe (peanut sauce, meat) (🔗1)

Liberia

• Torborgee (red cowpeas) (🔗1)
• Fry kidney beans (🔗1 🔗2)

Mali

• Tô (bambara flour) (1)

Niger

• Dounguouri soko (🔗1 🔗2)
• Djerma (chicken and peanut stew) (🔗1)

Nigeria

• Moyin Moyin (JSS, CCC, 🔗1)
• Ekuru (white moin moin) (🔗1)
• Akara/Kosal (JSS, FFIW, 🔗1)
• Ewa aganyin (honey beans) (🔗1)
• Adalu (brown beans, corn) (🔗1)

Northern Nigeria

• Dan Wake (🔗1)

Southeastern Nigeria

• Okpa (🔗1)

Senegal

• Ndambe (🔗1)
• Maafe (🔗1)
• Cinq Centimes (peanut cookie) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Saladu Ñebbe (🔗1)
• Mbahal (🔗1)

Sierra Leone

• (FSL) Massaquoi: Foods of Sierra Leone and Other West African Countries
• Beef groundnut soup (FSL)
• Chicken groundnut soup (FSL)
• Pork groundnut soup (FSL)
• Fisherman’s groundnut soup (FSL)
• Groundnut veggie soup (FSL)
• Boiled okra sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Dried okra sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Torworgbortoh (fava bean sauce) (FSL)
• Black-eyed pea sauce (FSL)
• Cassava leaf veggie sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Potato leaf veggie sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Spinach veggie sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Pilaah veggie sauce (fava beans, eggplant, mushrooms) (FSL)
• Black-eyed bean veggie sauce (FSL)
• Okra veggie sauce (FSL)
• Boiled groundnuts (FSL)
• Roasted groundnuts (FSL)
• Akara (black-eyed peas) (FSL)
• Oleleh (black-eyed peas) (FSL)

Togo

• Aganyin (🔗1)
• Ayimolou (🔗1)
• Dzongoli (🔗1)