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In search of a new appetizer recipe? Let Haitian accras be your pick. Typically, accras can be described as fried dumplings made out of malangas. Malangas are one of the oldest underground root crops in the world and are also known as tannia, malanga amarilla, yautia amarilla, taro or cocoyam. …
Kelewele is probably the recipe all my Ghanaian friends know how to make. And sure thing, I was hooked from the first time I tried these Ghanaian-style fried plantains. The plantains coated in a mixture of spices are served as a snack/side-of- the- road dish in Ghana, with roasted groundnuts. …
Name: Sweet banana-coconut bread
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Are you one of those weirdos (like me) who can only enjoy a banana when it is not ripe? Well, if you are, then you need a very special recipe to avoid throwing away those ripe, a.k.a way-to-sweet-to-late-to-eat bananas. And even if you do enjoy eating raw ripe bananas, this banana-coconut bread recipe will allow you to mix things up! …
While the pumpkin is an October symbol in North America, squash is rather a January 1st symbol in Haiti. Indeed, January 1st 1804 marked the independence of Haiti and the first day the newly freed slaves were able to have Joumou soup, a meal that was previously forbidden by their French Masters. This butternut squash soup is now enjoyed as a family meal at the beginning of each year in defiance to the former colonial authorities….
