Okele

Okele, also known as "swallows" in pidgin Nigeria English, is a Yoruba food category for various starchy foods eaten with soups.[1] Ingredients used to make okele include yam, fermented cassava, cassava granules with hot water, plantain, wheat flour, yam flour, potato and cocoyam.[2] Okele can also be made from rice, millet, sorghum and corn. Okele in Yoruba cuisine includes iyan (pounded yam), eba, fufu, amala, lafun, semo, poundo, pupuru and potato fufu.[3][4]

  • Iyan (pounded yam), with Egusi soup
  • Yoruba fufu
  • Amala topped with Ewedu
  • Eba
  • Semo
  • Lafun in soup
  • Pupuru

References

  1. ^ "Up the Mountain Called Okele". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  2. ^ "Okele and the man". Nigeria NG. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  3. ^ "Nigerian Staple Foods: Solid Meals aka Swallow". Foodie in Lagos. 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  4. ^ "Okele Feast". Mychopchop. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
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