Akara Mboro
We are beginning our first Christmas recipe with this interesting dessert. In the original context, it wasn’t designed to be a dessert but alas with the right amount of sugar any dish can be a dessert. Mboro in the efik language means banana and for those that don’t know what akara is, it’s a common appetizer or breakfast dish made out of beans and fried to little puffs. The combination of both names gives Akara mboro.
A lot of west africans have incorporated this dish into their culture. If you search banana akara, you would find people from Sierra Leone, Cameroon and other parts making different versions of the dish. Some people use grated cassava or other types of flour to thicken the mix. One thing I also like about this dish is you can use bananas that are already brown or almost brown. They do not affect the taste. Without further ado, We are launching the Afrolems Christmas recipe countdown with Akara Mboro!
Recipe for Akara Mboro
Ingredients ( Serves 5-6 people)
2 bananas
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup of water
1 teaspoon baking powder
Method
Mash your bananas and set aside.
Mix all the dry ingredients together and mix in the bananas into the flour mix.
Pour the water slowly and continue to mix till mixture is smooth.
Heat up your oil for deep frying and drop little balls of the mixture.
Serve with a beverage or icing sugar sprinkled on it.
If you are watching your sugar intake, skip the extra icing sugar sprinkling and reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe by half.
If you want is savoury (in which case it may not be a dessert anymore), serve with hot sauce
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