How To Make Easy Akara From Beans Flour - Convenience Cooking

Someone asked why I used frozen spinach in my last gizzard sauce. Anyone who's been paying attention to these food recipes would have recognized that I'm what some people may describe as a convenience cook. My mum laughs at me and calls me mademoiselle in the kitchen because I don't like to get dirty. Yes, I cook with an apron most times. More importantly, I like all the ingredients I cook with to be almost ready.

So while I can chop my own onions, I sometimes buy chopped onions and peppers, frozen spinach or mixed vegetables, cleaned gizzard, chicken parts rather than whole, you get the idea. It also means I don't mind using beans flour to prepare my moi-moi and akara. It doesn't help that I live in Seattle where the only African store stocks only dried okazi, ugu, bitterleaf, etc.

I know, I know...like most people I prefer made-from-fresh-ingredients food too. However, I tried blending soaked beans for moi-moi twice, and both times, the blender packed up. Also, my made from half-processed-foodstuff meals taste great too, even if I do say so myself. OK, some of them turn out to be experiments, but I can eat most things I cook, and Atala is a willing co-explorer.

So if you're a cook from scratch person, my recipes will let you see how the other side lives. If you've been too lazy to learn at all or to cook the little you've learnt, then you're at the right place. If you're a convenience cook like me, then you're a sister of my heart. Let's make Akara from beans flour.

Ingredients

Beans Flour
Cooked Tomato Stew
Half an Onion
Salt to taste

Mix the beans flour in warm water and add a little of the cooked stew

Chop your onions

Stir the onions into the beans mixture

The consistency of the beans mixture should be thick, just about dropping from the spoon. Heat at least 2 inches deep oil in a pot or fry pan till it sizzles when an onion is dropped in. Use a round bottomed spoon to scoop the beans mixture into the hot oil

Sizzling akara balls

Remove and add more of the beans mixture as you pot can contain

Your food is ready. Eat with custard or akamu/ogi, a cold juice drink or a hot beverage like tea or coffee. Bon apetit!