A West African dish, is exciting not just because it is exotic to Americans, but also because they have a spicy tastes that explode into different flavors inside your mouth. No wonder these dishes from Western Africa are quickly becoming popular across major cities in the U.S. Yes, I’m talking about the fish yassa, goat pepper soup, egusi soup, moin moin, hot peppers, eddoe soup, peanut oil, butternut squash, efo riro among other famous traditional from the West African region.
However, unless you are from there and know how to cook dishes from that part of the world. Chances are high, you only get your West African dish when you visit the African restaurant near you to have your Ghanain dish, Senegalese dish, Moroccan dish, or Nigerian dish.
Homemade West African Dish
But what if I told you that you can have your favorite Nigerian, Ghanaian, dish right at your home? I know what you are thinking, ‘who is going to make a trip around the blocks looking for the food ingredients?’
Then again, if you were to shop around the block for the ingredients. Odds are high that you are not going to find everything. And if you are lucky enough to get everything, odds will be stuck against you in terms of cooking the food the right way to bring out the right flavor and smell.
Nonetheless, you can still fix yourself a West African cuisine right inside your kitchen. No, you will not need to hire a chef skilled in the West African recipe. You can cook the West African foods all by yourself; well sort of! All thanks to the couple below.
Fred and Perteet Spencer – founders of AYO Foods
AYO Foods is a small business supplying frozen West African dishes to Whole Foods. That means you can pick your frozen ogbono soup, groundnut stew, fried plantains, root vegetable, pounded yam, goat pepper soup, chicken yassa, or any other popular dish from Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Morocco, Sierra Leone from the Whole Foods store. And go cook it (rather finish cooking it) at your home kitchen.
For better convenience, you can stock up on the various frozen West African cuisines in your fridge and during the weekend have a homemade African soul food moment with friends and family. And have a different West African dish for the different days of the weekdays.
