West African recipes
21 West African recipes for a home kitchen, from 25 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.
Dinner
25 min
West African · dinner
Skillet yaji shrimp with lime beans
Seared shrimp tossed with yaji spice, scallions and lime, served over warm, partly mashed pinto beans.
40 min
West African · dinner
Peanut tomato stew with sweet potato
Sweet potato simmered in tomato and stock, enriched with peanut butter, with spinach wilted in at the end.
40 min
West African · dinner
Chicken kedjenou with eggplant
An Ivorian-style covered-pot stew: chicken and eggplant cook in the juices of tomato, onion, ginger and thyme, with no stock added.
40 min
West African · dinner
Beef and sweet potato peanut stew
A thick West African-style stew of ground beef and sweet potato in a savory tomato and peanut butter sauce.
40 min
West African · dinner
Chicken muamba with okra
Boneless chicken thighs browned in red palm oil and simmered with tomatoes, onion, garlic and okra into a rich, Angolan-style stew. The okra gives the sauce body.
45 min
West African · dinner
Chicken yassa with lemon onions
Chicken thighs are browned, then simmered over a mound of soft onions with mustard and lemon for a tangy, mellow sauce that suits rice.
45 min
West African · dinner
Nigerian beef suya
Thin beef skewers rubbed with spicy peanut yaji spice, grilled and served with raw onion, tomato and more spice.
50 min
West African · dinner
Dibi (Senegalese grilled lamb with mustard onions)
Lamb chops marinated in mustard and spices, seared hard and served with tangy mustard-braised onions, greens and fresh bread.
55 min
West African · dinner
Smoky tomato and pepper jollof rice
Rice cooked in a rich blended tomato and pepper base with smoked paprika. Good on its own or with chicken.
60 min
West African · dinner
Red red (Ghanaian bean stew)
Black-eyed peas in a palm-oil tomato stew, served with fried ripe plantain.
75 min
West African · dinner
Egusi soup
Nigerian stew thickened with ground melon seeds, with beef, smoked fish, palm oil and leafy greens.
75 min
West African · dinner
Poulet moambé (Congolese palm nut chicken)
Chicken stewed in palm nut cream (or peanut-tomato) sauce, served with rice or fufu.
75 min
West African · dinner
Ghana groundnut (peanut) soup
Rich chicken soup with peanut butter, tomato and spice, served with rice balls (omo tuo) or fufu.
90 min
West African · dinner
Nigerian jollof rice with red stew chicken
Smoky, tomato-red jollof rice cooked in a blended pepper base, with chicken simmered in a spiced red stew and sweet fried plantains.
90 min
West African · dinner
Waakye
Ghana's beloved rice and black-eyed peas cooked with dried sorghum leaves for a deep reddish color, served with shito and stew.
120 min
West African · dinner
Moi moi
Steamed savory pudding of peeled black-eyed peas blended with peppers, onion and crayfish.
120 min
West African · dinner
Goat pepper soup
Spicy, aromatic Nigerian broth of goat meat and yam with pepper soup spice and scent leaves.
120 min
West African · dinner
Thieboudienne
Senegal's national dish: fish stuffed with parsley-garlic rof, simmered with vegetables in tomato broth, and broken rice cooked in that broth.
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