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🍽️ Akara — beignets de niébé

Quantities for 4 people, from the Marché Facile assistant’s recipe sheet. Ingredients link to product pages in the catalogue — the day’s price is on the product page, never frozen here.

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity (4 people)	In the catalogue
Haricots secs (niébé / cornille)	300 g	Haricot Blanc VRAC sold loose (300 g or 500 g depending on the label) Note: In the catalogue, dried beans are listed as "haricot blanc / rouge vrac"; niébé (cornille) is not yet listed under its own name — flagged during prospection.
Oignon	2 (1 for the dough, 1 for the sauce)	Oignon Blanc
Ail	2 cloves	AIL Substitution: Ground garlic (1 tsp)
Piment frais	2 to 3	Piment Frais
Concentré de tomate (sauce)	2 tbsp	Concentre DE Tomate PATE Alyssa
Huile de friture	50 cl	Huile DE Tournesol AYA the street version is often fried in red palm oil
Cube d'assaisonnement (optional)	1 cube	CUBE Maggi Poulet sold in packs of 10 cubes, the smallest size in the catalogue; the rest keeps for your next sauces
Sel	1 tsp	GROS SEL FIN IODE
Eau	about 20 cl (dough) + soaking	Already at home (assumed to be at home)

Preparation

Street fritters, the 'kossi' sold by the women vendors: niébé soaked overnight, peeled, then beaten into a frothy batter and fried by the spoonful. A small spicy tomato-onion sauce almost always goes with them. The batter is beaten for a long time: it is the incorporated air that makes them light.

Recipe in English. See all 57 recipes · See the catalogue