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The refreshing and tasty Central African Fruit Salad is a blend of fruits, peanuts, and fresh mint, with an interesting addition of avocado. It is topped off with a tangy, lightly sweet dressing.

This Somalian tea recipe is spiced with cloves, cinnamon, black peppers and cardamom.

Anjero is a spongy pancake that can be eaten for breakfast, topped with savory foods or rolled up for a snack.

In Central African cooking, groundnuts (peanuts) are often used in soups and stews. The peanuts are ground into peanut butter and incorporated into the sauce for flavor and thickening. This recipe for African-Inspired Peanut Butter Chicken is delicious served with corn fufu and fried plantains.

Pili-pili sauce is a favorite hot and spicy African condiment. Pili-pili translates to pepper-pepper. The Easy Pili-Pili Hot Sauce Recipe is simple to prepare and requires no cooking. Serve pili-pili sauce with just about everything!

Fufu is a food staple in Central and Western Africa. Fufu is made with water and either corn flour, manioc (cassava), yams, semolina, rice, potato flakes, or plantains. It is served with saucy main dishes, soups, and stews.

Chin Chin is a Nigerian cookie that is fried. I sprinkle mine with powdered sugar – you can also shake warm cookies in a bag of powdered sugar or sugar and cinnamon mix.

Nigerians eat plantains for a starchy side dish. Their skin should be yellowish green for this dish – if skins are too black (very ripe), plantains will be too sweet and not starchy enough. Plantains can be found in your local supermarket.

The ingredients in this chicken stew include peanut butter, red pepper flakes, and hot sauce, you will be pleasantly surprised at the flavor. “The man that eats no pepper is weak, pepper is the staff of life…” A Yoruba Proverb – Now ladies, don’t scrimp on the hot pepper.

This dip is similar to my hummus recipe but uses eggplant instead of chickpeas – who would have thought. Don’t let the color fool you, this dip is scrumptious.