When it comes to food especially African dishes, I can't help mentioning my favorite food which is mainly taken on breakfast. It's called "Akara" or "Kosai" ( in Hausa language). If you want to prepare this delicious breakfast, you should get or buy some ingredients viz; beans, onion, pepper, seasoning, and cooking oil.
Firstly, you take the beans the quantity you want to prepare depending on the family size, for example, one mudu or half mudu as you wish. You then soak the beans into a bucket or bowl of water for about one and half or two hours, by then it becomes well soaked and softer.
After then, you drain the soaking water and put fresh water on it. Now you can add the fresh pepper and onions in it. By so doing, it is ready for grinding. You grind them together in a blender or grinding machine. After you run it once or twice in the blender or grinding machine it will become beans paste. Next is to add some salt and seasonings to make it tasty.
The next is to put some cooking oil in your frying pan and start to heat it under a stove or cooker until it start to boil, i.e. when you start seeing some bubbles from the oil. It is now ready to start frying the bean paste. You can use a spoon or small ladle to be drawing the prepared bean paste ball by ball and putting it in the already boiling cooking oil.
As it continues frying, after some five to ten minutes you take your stick and be turning each one upside down in the oil to fry the other side of the bean cake. After another five to ten minutes it will be well fried and looks redfish in color. You now drain the bean cake from the oil either using a stick or perforated spoon and put it in a colander in order for the remaining oil in it to drain well. Now! your bean cake is ready. You can eat your bean cake alone or with a pepper powder.
Enjoy your bean cake!
