Cuisine from west Africa

There's many different cuisines of the world. This focuses on west Africans cuisines featuring breakfast, lunch,

and dinner for the rich and poor people of the country.

Thesis statement

Typical breakfast in Africa

Cereal

Porridge

Breads

Biscuits

African typical lunch/dinners

There are many traditional food they make for lunch

Africa has hundreds of different cultures and ethnic groups

Using most of the fruits and veggies grown

West african meals are very starchy

They use rice, fonio, millet, and sorghum, black-eyed beans, brown beans, and many more

Cooking is done in many ways like boiling, frying, roasting, baking, mashing, and spicing

Use many spices and sauces to make things hot

Fruits in west Africa

Bananas are very abundant in Africa

Sweet plants are most often fried, while hard plants are boiled or pounded into fufu

Popular fruits would be bananas, dates, guavas, mangos, pineapples, oranges, figs, passionfruits, jackfruit, and wild lemons can also be found.

Crops grown and widely used in west Africa

Breakfast in Africa has a very big varieties such as porridge, breads, cereal, etc

In Nigeria root crops, primarily varieties of yam and cassava

Veggies used in west Africa are Greens, spinach, sweet potato leaves, Cocoyam leaves, cabbage, bologie, pumpkin leaves, lettuce, shortkortoh, and Ogumoh

Popular dishes from west Africa

West African banana apple fritters

1.50 cups all-purpose flour

6 tablespoons sugar

3 egg

1 cup milk

5 banana

1 to taste oil

1 to taste powdered sugar

Zimbabwean chicken and vegetable soup

1 tbsp olive oil

1 onion (diced)

4 cups vegetable stock (divided)

1/2 cup peanut butter

2 cups diced tomatoes (canned, with juices)

1/4 tsp crush flake pepper red (or more to taste)

1 cup cabbage (finely chopped)

1 cup sweet potatoes (chopped)

1 cup carrots (peeled and chopped)

1 cup turnips (peeled and chopped)

1 cup okra (chopped)

1 cup cooked chicken (chopped, or to taste)

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http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/A-Ap/Africans-Diets-of.html#b

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http://www.yummly.com/recipe/West-African-Banana-Fritters-Recipezaar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_cuisine

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