Akara
Bean fritters
Akara, Bean Fritters, is the most widely eaten fried meal component or snack in West Africa. Due to historical forced migration, Akara is eaten in Brazil. This indicates that Akara has been a significant part of the West African menu for many centuries. Traditionally, it is made of black eyed beans.
We make fully fried Akara. We also sell Akara frozen so that it can be thawed, reheated in an oven and served in restaurants and cafetarias.
Akara is eaten as a side dish to accompany breakfast cereals. it is also eaten with bread as a filling for sandwiches and in between buns.
Akara - Pack of 4 - £3.00
Moin-moin
Steamed bean pudding
Moin-moin, Steamed bean pudding, is a tofu like product made from beans,( not soyabeans) herbs and a little vegetable oil. It may also contain fish, meat or eggs. Moin-moin is eaten as a side dish to accompany breakfast cereals.
Moinmoin is also eaten with rice.
Moin-moin, like Akara, is eaten in Brazil.
We sell Moin-moin fully cooked.
450g pack - £3.00
Cooked leafy vegetable
Cooked vegetables are a prominent component of West African meals generally and specifically of our cooked ready meals.
Cooked leafy vegetables accompany rice and other grains, ground rice, cooked gari, and fufu.
Cooked leafy vegetables are also eaten just with protein food like meat, chicken or fish.
400g pack £3.50
Okro stew
Okro stew is important as it accompanies cooked doughs like fufu, cooked gari, and other cooked carbohydrate dough . It lubricates the cooked dough balls making them easy to swallow.
400g pack £3.50.
Melon stew
Melon stew is very important. It accompanies meals especially at important meal occasions. It is usually used in beef and fish stew with added cooked leafy vegetables.
Melon stew is very difficult to get right. but with our melon stew you get it right every time.
400g Pack £7.00
Cooked vegetables with melon
Melon seeds and vegetables is a common stew. It is used particularly on special occasions, when it is cooked with stock fish. It is enjoyed with meal and fish as well. Many types of leafy vegetables can be used, at different times.
Pack of 400g £6
Tomato, chilli and herbs sauce
This is the centre-piece of the meal components . It can be used by itself. And we bottle it for such use. it is often used as it is, on rice cooked beans.,
However, often in West African cooking, other vegetable components,, shown above, are often selected and combined with tomato and chilli sauce, as the meal dictates or the user prefers.
1 pack of 500g - £4.00
Pounded yam -
carbohydrate cooked dough
A cooked carbohydrate source is almost always part of a meal. It could be pounded yam, fufu, gari, ground rice, fermented as well as unfermented cassava dough, fermented as well as unfermented maize dough, gari, fermented cassava dough or even potato.
450g of pounded yam £4.00
450g of ground rice £3.50
Ready meals.
Putting meal components together.
The ready meal puts the meal components shown above together. When delivered ready meals are ordered the buyer will specify the components, as they prefer. Ready meals may or may not contain meat products.
We also sell ready meals with components put together as demand indicates, using appropriate and effective processing, preservation and packaging methods.
Ready meal pack of 600g ( without meat) £4.50
Doughnuts and puff-puff
We sell deep fried wheat based doughnuts We also sell puff puff a West African variant of doughnuts.
Not currently available for sale.
