We’ve arrived in Nigeria where we are making vegan egusi soup. From our previous stop in East Africa where we visited Tanzania, we crossed the continent to arrive in West Africa where we prepare a true Nigerian classic, egusi. This thick soup or stew gets its characteristic texture and flavour […]
West Africa
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For Burkina Faso, we cook a vegan babenda recipe, a simple one pot dish with rice and leafy greens with flavour from fermented locust beans.
For our virtual visit to Senegal, we cook a vegan thieboudienne or ceebu jën. This flavourful rice dish dish is the Senegal version of jollof rice, the immensely popular dish eaten in different versions across most of West Africa. Read on to learn a bit more about Senegalese cooking or […]
This week on our vegan world tour, we return to West Africa and cook a Ghanaian vegan recipe for Red Red. Read on to learn a bit about Ghana's cuisine or jump straight to the recipe
Today we visit The Gambia on the western coast of Africa, a small country closely contouring The Gamber River. The close connection to water influences the cuisine where fish is a major food source. Typical plant-based ingredients include groundnuts (peanuts), rice, okra, palm oil, couscous, cassava, fonio and leafy greens […]