food ingredients

Food Ingredients

By West Africa Cooks, 1 October, 2016

Keeping Healthy African Cooking

Traditions Alive with FufuMagic!

FufuMagic is a revolutionary new food processor that makes preparing healthy, traditional African staple foods easy and convenient

Do you love eating African dishes but are daunted by the process of making fufu, garri, pounded yam, ugali, amala, etc yourself?

By West Africa Cooks, 18 November, 2015

If I said to you bush tucker what is the first thing that comes into your mind bush tucker trials? Extreme eating! Eating crocodile penis, scorpion, cricket, ants and mealworm in I'm A Celebrity. It is true eat snails from the French menu and you are celebrated; eat African snails and wow that is gross. Media images of food are everywhere of what we should eat and it is not bush. Fran Osseo-Asare believes that there is a negative image of African food. See the video by Fran Osseo-Asare author of Ghana Cookbook.

By West Africa Cooks, 11 January, 2014

What Is Breadfruit And How Do You Cook It?

Bread Fruit:- Sierra Leone, Krio local food name is Bredfruit (Mende name is Belefu and Temne name is Ma-Kant-Ma-Potho) this is a starchy fruit, green on the outside, cream-white in the inside, usually boiled, roasted of fried, Its name is derived from the texture of the cooked fruit, which has a potato-like flavor, similar to freshly baked bread.* Mainly carbohydrate, very ripe breadfruit becomes sweet, as the starch converts to sugar.

By West Africa Cooks, 17 October, 2013

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By West Africa Cooks, 8 September, 2013

What are the main ingredients used in West African cooking? Ingredients used in West African cooking are now more readily available in a market near you in the major cities. Super markets now stock world food or ethnic food in the major cities. Above picture of African Apples.

Krio, Mende And Temne

Here is a list of the food names and local names in the Sierra Leone diet.

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