African Beans

Click anywhere on the map or scroll down to explore regional bean dishes.

Cookbooks:

• (CCC) Sitole: Cooking from Cape to Cairo

North Africa

• (NAK) Fiona Dunlop: The North African Kitchen
• (CVC) Salloum: Classic Vegetarian Cooking of the Middle East and North Africa
• (LFO) Salloum: From the Lands of Figs and Olives
• (FFIW) Helou: Feast: Food of the Islamic World
• (ZAAC) Mardam-Bey: Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine

Egypt

• (NS) Riolo: Nile Style
• Koshari (CCC, FFIW, NS, 🔗1 🔗2)
• Foul mudammas (CCC, CVC, FFIW, NS, LFO, 🔗1)
• Ful mudammis bil-tihina (fava with tahini) (ZAAC)
• Fool nabed (fava bean soup) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Ta'amia (dry peeled fava fritters) (CVC, NS, LFO, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat 'adas (red lentil soup) (CVC, FFIW, NS, LFO, 🔗1)
• Dukkah (chickpeas/peanut/sesame seasoning) (FFIW, 🔗1)
• Shurba bil hommus (NS)
• Salata hommus bil tomatum wa tahina (chickpea salad) (NS)
• Koftat adas ahmar (red lentil croquettes) (NS)
• Termis (lupini beans) (NS, 🔗1)
• Tabaa M'kassarat (mixed nuts, peanuts, chickpeas) (NS)
• Hommus bil tahina (NS)
• Hummus kasa (🔗1)
• Bissara (dry fava soup) (ZAAC, 🔗1)

Algeria

• Djari bel foul (white beans) (Roden: The Cooking of the Middle East)
• Homoss (🔗1)
• Tagine (white beans or kidney beans) (🔗1)
• Lobia (bean stew) (🔗1)
• Loubia bel Merguez (🔗1)
• Chorba adas (lentils) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Chorba beida (chickpeas) 🔗1
• Chorba hajala (chickpeas) 🔗1
• Harira 🔗1
• Shawra Jaza'iriya (lamb, chicken, chickpeas) (LFO)
• Garantita (chickpea flour, egg) (🔗1)
• Chakhchoukha (🔗1)
• Zrira el houboub (dessert, chickpea flour, ground lentils) (🔗1)
• Couscous tfaya 🔗1
• Algerian couscous (beef, chicken, chickpeas, vegetables) (LFO)
• Osbane Kabyle tikourbabine 🔗1
• Tbikha 🔗1 🔗2
• Berkoukes 🔗1 🔗2
• Dwida (chickpeas, rice, chicken) 🔗1
• Ghraib (chickpea flour cookies) 🔗1
• Ros bratel (fresh fava in sauce) (🔗1 🔗2)

Northern Algeria

• Doubara de Biskra (chickpeas) 🔗1
• Hamra chorba 🔗1

Eastern Algeria

• Chorba frik (chickpeas) 🔗1
• Cherchem 🔗1

Southern Algeria

• Tlitli a la sauce rouge 🔗1

Libya

• مدمس فول أخضر ليبي Salatet Fool Akhdar (fresh fava) (🔗1)
• حساء عدس Hasa Adas (red lentil soup) (🔗1)
• Yahnee (chickpeas, tomatoes, red peppers) (LFO)
• Lubya b'selk (🔗1)
• Tabikhet Fasolia (🔗1 🔗2)
• Lubia bel kammun (🔗1)
• طبيخة السبانخ Tabikhet Silq (🔗1 🔗2 )
• Ghraiba (chickpea flour cookies) (🔗1)
• Sharmoula (🔗1)

Tripoli

• Sharba Libyia (NAK, 🔗1)
• طبيخة فاصوليا Fasoulia (NAK, 🔗1)

Eastern Libya

• طبيخة عيد Tbeikhet ‘Eid (chickpeas, pumpkin) (town of Derna) (🔗1)

Morocco

• Hummous (CCC, 🔗1)
• Bissara (fava) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Asseeda (navy beans, almonds) (LFO, CVC, 🔗1)
• Harira (CVC, FFIW, LFO, 🔗1)
• Mlokhia l'hamraak (okra, chickpea) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Mara silq (Swiss chard and lentil tajine) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Tajin terfez (truffle and chickpea tajine) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Tajin (CVC, LFO)
• Kesksu (couscous, chickpeas, lentils) (CVC)
• Couscous (lamb or beef, chickpeas, vegetables) (LFO)
• Kseksû bidawi (fresh fava, chickpeas) (FFIW, 🔗1)
• Kseksû tfaya (couscous, chicken, chickpeas) (FFIW, 🔗1)
• Hergma (lamb, chickpeas, wheat) (FFIW, 🔗1)
• D'jaja tarat ("the chicken that flew") (chickpeas, sweet potato) (FFIW, 🔗1)
• Shlada del ful (fresh fava bean salad) (FFIW)
• Kudra bil-daja wa hummus (chicken, chickpeas, onions) (LFO, 🔗1)

Marrakech

• Bessara (fresh fava) (NAK)
• Salade de fèves (fresh fava) (NAK, 🔗1)
• Hareera Marrakashee (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Couscous of Marrakesh (chicken, lamb or beef, chickpeas) (LFO)

Fez

• (RFF) Guinaudeau-Franc: Traditional Moroccan Cooking: Recipes from Fez
• Loubia (white bean) (NAK, CVC)
• Serrooda (NAK, CVC, 🔗1)
• Lentilles aux tomates et paprika (NAK)
• Harira (NAK, RFF)
• Fool fass (fresh fava) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Couscous (chickpeas, fresh fava) (RFF)
• Kdra (chicken, almonds, chickpeas, 🔗1) (RFF)

Sudan

• Salatat fool (peanut salad) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat al-khartoom (bones, vegetables, peanut butter) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Tamiya (chickpea fritters) (🔗1)

Tunisia

• Tbikhat fool masri (Andalusian towns) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Hlelem (chickpeas, fava, noodles) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Markit ommala (chickpeas, lentils) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Macaronis lablabee (chickpeas, macaroni) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Fish couscous (chickpeas) (FFIW)
• Tajin (beef, spinach, white bean pie) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Couscous (beef or lamb, chickpeas, vegetables) (LFO, 🔗1)

Tozeur

• Dweda bil-khodhra (vegetable stew, chickpeas) (CVC, 🔗1)

Tunis

• Lablabi (chickpeas, bread) (NAK, CVC, FFIW, LFO, 🔗1)

Libya

• Sharmoula (1)

Tripoli

• Shorba Libiya (chickpea) (NAK)
• Fasoulia (NAK)

West Africa

• (JSS) Jackson: South of the Sahara
• Steamed egusi and black-eyed pea dumplings (JSS)
• Eggplant-Peanut Butter Spread (JSS)
• Creamy peanut sauce (JSS)
• Spicy peanut sauce (JSS)
• Curried cream soup with black-eyed peas (JSS)
• Rice with black-eyed peas (JSS)
• Black-eyed peas and plantains in palm oil (JSS)
• Groundnut chop (peanut butter, meat, fish) (JSS)
• Baked chicken in groundnut sauce (JSS)
• Sunday stew (dawadawa) (JSS)
• Smoked fish with black-eyed peas (JSS)
• Kale with tomato and roasted peanuts (JSS)
• White bean, spinach, and groundnut sauce (JSS)

Benin

• Kuli-kuli 🔗1
• Ewa aganyin (honey beans) (🔗1 🔗2)

Burkina Faso

• Babenda (dawadawa, greens, fish) (🔗1)
• Boussan touba (🔗1)

Cameroon

• Beignets haricots (🔗1)
• Koki beans (🔗1 🔗2)
• Tooh-Kooni

Cape Verde

• Cachupa (🔗1)
• Jagacida (🔗1)

The Gambia

• (GC) Daryanani & Shah: The Gambian Cookbook
• Domoda (peanut) (GC, 🔗1 🔗2)
• Mbahal (salted fish, black-eyed peas or locust beans, vegetables) (GC)
• Nyebbeh (cassava, bean, fish) (GC, 🔗1)
• Olele (steamed bean pudding) (🔗1)

Ghana

• (ZGK) Adjonyoh: Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
• (TGC) Osseo-Asare and Baëta: The Ghana Cookbook
• Chicken and peanut stew (CCC, 🔗1)
• Aboboe (black-eyed peas/bambara beans) (ZGK, TGC, JSS, 🔗1)
• Adayi (black-eyed peas) (TGC, 🔗1)
• Ayikple (adzuki, corn flour, coconut milk, fish) (TGC, 🔗1)
• Yam and plantain peanut curry (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Aprapransa (adzuki, palm fruit) (🔗1)
• Ghana salad (cranberry or white beans) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Three bean salad (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Ghana dhal (yellow split peas) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Nkatse cake (peanut brittle) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Avocado and peanut dip (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Peanut sauce (ZGK, 🔗1)

Greater Accra

• Peanut soup (🔗1)
• Red red (black-eyed peas) (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Yo-ko-gari (🔗1)

Ashanti

• Peanut soup (🔗1)

Northern Ghana

• Tubaani (TCG, 🔗1)
• Koose (ZGK, 🔗1)
• Waakye (black-eyed peas) (ZGK, TGC, 🔗1)

Upper Eastern Ghana

• Tubaani
• Koko with koose (🔗1)

Guinea

• Kansiyé (1)
• Footi sauce (kidney beans, vegetables) (🔗1)

Ivory Coast

• Maafe (peanut sauce, meat) (🔗1)

Liberia

• Torborgee (red cowpeas) (🔗1)
• Fry kidney beans (🔗1 🔗2)

Mali

• Tô (bambara flour) (1)

Niger

• Dounguouri soko (🔗1 🔗2)
• Djerma (chicken and peanut stew) (🔗1)

Nigeria

• Moyin Moyin (JSS, CCC, 🔗1)
• Ekuru (white moin moin) (🔗1)
• Akara/Kosal (JSS, FFIW, 🔗1)
• Ewa aganyin (honey beans) (🔗1)
• Adalu (brown beans, corn) (🔗1)

Northern Nigeria

• Dan Wake (🔗1)

Southeastern Nigeria

• Okpa (🔗1)

Senegal

• Ndambe (🔗1)
• Maafe (🔗1)
• Cinq Centimes (peanut cookie) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Saladu Ñebbe (🔗1)
• Mbahal (🔗1)

Sierra Leone

• (FSL) Massaquoi: Foods of Sierra Leone and Other West African Countries
• Beef groundnut soup (FSL)
• Chicken groundnut soup (FSL)
• Pork groundnut soup (FSL)
• Fisherman's groundnut soup (FSL)
• Groundnut veggie soup (FSL)
• Boiled okra sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Dried okra sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Torworgbortoh (fava bean sauce) (FSL)
• Black-eyed pea sauce (FSL)
• Cassava leaf veggie sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Potato leaf veggie sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Spinach veggie sauce (fava) (FSL)
• Pilaah veggie sauce (fava beans, eggplant, mushrooms) (FSL)
• Black-eyed bean veggie sauce (FSL)
• Okra veggie sauce (FSL)
• Boiled groundnuts (FSL)
• Roasted groundnuts (FSL)
• Akara (black-eyed peas) (FSL)
• Oleleh (black-eyed peas) (FSL)

Togo

• Aganyin (🔗1)
• Ayimolou (🔗1)
• Dzongoli (🔗1)

Central Africa

Chad

• Daraba (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)

Central African Republic

• Fulani boullie (🔗1)

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Moamba (peanut butter sauce, chicken) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Tshaka madesu (cassava leaves, beans) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Madesu na mabumu (beans, lamb) (🔗1)
• Cotis Fumée et Haricots Rouges (red beans, pork) (🔗1)
• Tshomba tsha kabiola (cassava root, peanuts, milk dessert) (🔗1)

Equatorial Guinea

• Succotash (lima beans)

East Africa

• (IBK) Hassan: In Bibi's Kitchen

Comoros

• Sweet pea soup with coconut and ginger (IBK, 🔗1)
• Ambrevades au curry (green pigeon peas) (IBK, 🔗1)

Eritrea

• Shiro (IBK)
• Shahan ful (IBK, ATC)
• Hilbet (🔗1)
• Tsebhi Birsen (red lentils) (🔗1 🔗2)
• ሽሮ Tsebhi shiro (dry green peas) (🔗1 🔗2)

Ethiopia

• (ERT) Gebreyesus: Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa
• (EEC) Mesfin: Exotic Ethiopian Cooking: Society, Culture, Hospitality, and Traditions
• (ATC) Fessehatsion & Peterson: Auntie Tsehai Cooks: A Guide to Making Authentic Ethiopian and Eritrean Cuisine

Fava/Chickpea/Pea Flour

• Yebaqela duqet (fava flour) (EEC)
• Mit-in shiro (spiced powdered chickpeas, lentils, peas, beans) (EEC, ERT)
• Bozena shiro (mit-in shiro sauce, beef) (ATC)
• Nech' shiro (mild powdered peas, beans, chickpeas) (EEC)
• Yeshiro alich'a (mild sauce from nech' shiro)
• Yeshimbra dabbo (fermented chickpea flour bread) (EEC)
• Yeshimbra dabbe (chickpea flour pancake) (EEC)
• Yeshimbra assa (fish-shaped chickpea flour) (EEC, ATC)
• Shiro wat (ERT, EEC, ATC)
• But'echa (chickpea flour paste) (EEC, ATC)
• Yeqwant'a shiro (dried beef, mit-in shiro) (EEC)
• Infirfir shiro (pea flour paste) (EEC)
• Doyyo (pea flour sauce, meat)
• Yeshimbra kitfo (chickpea flour flatbread) (EEC)
• Yeshiro fitfit (pea flour and injera) (EEC, ATC)
• Yemitad shiro (ATC)

Peas

• Aterkek Alecha (vegetable stew with split peas) (CCC)
• Ater wat fitfit (yellow peas) (ERT)
• Ater kik alicha (yellow split peas) (ERT)
• Yet'ift'ire we't (cotton seeds, split peas) (EEC)
• Yedifin ater alich'a (whole dried pea sauce) (EEC)
• Ye'ater fitfit (whole dried peas and injera) (EEC)

Fava Beans

• Ful (ERT)
• Ilbet (fava beans, sunflower seeds) (EEC)
• Gulban (flour, split fava) (EEC)
• Yebaqela kik we't (split fava sauce) (EEC)
• Yebaqela fitfit (fava beans and injera) (EEC)
• Yebaqela siljo (fava bean paste) (EEC)

Red Lentils

• Azifa (lentil salad) (ERT, EEC)
• Yekik alich'a (red lentil or green split pea sauce) (EEC)
• Yemisir kik we't (split lentil sauce) (EEC, ATC)
• Yemisir alicha (mild split lentil sauce) (EEC, ATC)
• Yekik we't (red lentil sauce) (EEC)
• Yemisir shorba (lentil soup) (EEC)

Brown Lentils

• Misir alicha (ATC)
• Misir gomen limosh (greens) (ATC)
• Sambusa (lentil wraps) (ATC)
• Azifa (lentil salad) (ATC)

Peanuts

• Kolo (barley, peanuts) (ERT)

Chickpeas

• Yeshimbra fitfit (chickpeas and injera) (EEC)
• Humus (EEC)
• Ater betelba (sauce with flax) (ATC)
• Ater fitfit (injera) (ATC)

Split Chickpeas

• Ater alicha (mild sauce) (ATC)

Kidney Beans

• Yeadengware shorba (kidney bean soup) (EEC)

Gambela

• Kupe (kidney bean, okra, corn flour) (Komo people) (ERT)
• Misr wat (ERT)

Lalibela

• Shimbra wat (chickpeas) (ERT)

Kenya

• (EKK) Plancherel: Explore the Kenyan Kitchen
• Mataha (pea corn and potato mash) (CCC)
• Kunde (black-eyed peas, peanut sauce) (IBK)
• Viazi karai (potatoes, chickpea flour) (EKK)
• Maharagwe (kidney beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)

Kikuyu

• Githeri (Kikuyu) (corn, beans) (🔗1)
• Mukimo (green split peas) (IBK)
• Kimitu (beans, potatoes)
• Irio (beans/peas, corn, potatoes) (🔗1 🔗2)

Maasai

• Njahi (black hyacinth beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)

Swahili

• Uji wa kunde (red cowpeas, coconut milk) (🔗1)
• Borohowa La Pojo (🔗1)
• Borohowa la Nazi (🔗1)
• Mbaazi za Nazi (🔗1)
• Kachori za Pojo (🔗1)
• Bajia (🔗1)

Madagascar

• (MS) Donenfeld: Mankafy Sakafo
• Tsaramaso Malagasy (IBK, 🔗1)
• Bonbonvoanjo (peanut brittle) (MS)
• Tsaramaso Malagasy (white beans) (MS)
• Tsaramaso sy Voanio (coconut milk, red beans) (MS)
• Kabaro

Mauritius

• Cari Gros Pois et Viande (lima bean and meat curry) (🔗1 🔗2)

Mozambique

• Feijoada (🔗1 🔗2)
• Mucapata (🔗1 🔗2)
• Matapa (🔗1)

Rwanda

• Ibiharage (🔗1)
• Kawunga (🔗1 🔗2)

Somalia

• Xawaash Somali Food Blog
• فول مدمس Fuul (fava) (🔗1)
• عَمْبُولُو Cambuulo (🔗1)
• Digir (adzuki) 🔗1
• Baajiye (black-eyed peas) 🔗1
• سلطة الفول والحمص Insalaaddo Digir (whole fava, chickpeas) (🔗1)

South Sudan

• Taste of South Sudan
• Ful medames (🔗1)
• Kidney beans 🔗1
• Spinach with peanut butter 🔗1
• Tegiri with peanut butter 🔗1
• Royoroyo 🔗1
• Nyete greens with peanut butter 🔗1
• Boiled peanuts 🔗1
• Addas (red lentil) 🔗1
• Salata aswad 🔗1

Tanzania

• Matoke with spinach (pink beans) (IBK)
• Maharagwe ya nazi (kidney beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)
• Kashata (peanut brittle) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Mchicha (peanut and amaranth greens curry) (🔗1 🔗2)

Dar-es-Salaam

• Chana bateta (chickpea potato curry) (🔗1)

Zanzibar

• Urojo / Zanzibar Mix 🔗1 🔗2

Uganda

• Katogo (bananas, beans) (🔗1)
• Matoke with beans (🔗1)
• Bean stew (🔗1)
• G-nut sauce (peanuts) (🔗1)
• Mushroom g-nut luwombo (or chicken or fish) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Chaloko (pinto beans) (🔗1)
• Apena Ongaho (pigeon peas, shea butter) (🔗1)

Northern Uganda

• Dek ngor (yellow split peas) (🔗1)
• Malakwang and sweet potatoes (peanut) (🔗1)

Western Uganda

• Firinda (🔗1)

Southern Africa

Angola

• Farofa (rice, beans, cassava flour) 🔗1
• Arroz com feijão
• Dendem/Feijão de óleo de palma (🔗1 🔗2)
• Feijoada de Luanda (🔗1)
• Doce de ginguba (peanut candy) (🔗1)
• Bolo de ginguba 🔗1
• Ginguba torrada (roasted peanuts)
• Paracuca (sweet roasted peanuts)
• Kizaka 🔗1
• Matapa (shrimp, peanuts, greens) (🔗1)

Botswana

• Dikgobe (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)
• Ditloo (🔗1)
• Morogo wa Dinawa (cowpea leaves) 🔗1

Eswatini

• Insontjwana (cornmeal, jugo beans) (🔗1)
• Umngcushu (samp and beans with nuts) (CCC, 🔗1))
• Sishwala (sugar bean porridge) (CCC)
• Mung bean stew (🔗1)
• Sugar bean stew (🔗1)
• Sugar beans with peanut powder (🔗1)
• Sphushe (mashed jugo beans) (🔗1)

Lesotho

• Nyekoe (corn rice and beans) (CCC, 🔗1)
• Sishwala (🔗1 🔗2)

Namibia

• Oshingali (🔗1)

South Africa

Eastern Cape

IsiXhosa

• Isopho (maize and sugar bean) (CCC)
• Umngqusho (samp and beans) (CCC)

Kwazulu Natal

• Iphalishi Lobhontshisi (butter bean porridge) (CCC)

Limpopo and Mpulanga

Ndebele

• Ditloo/Izindlubu (jugo beans) (CCC)
• Chakalaka (CCC)

Venda

• Dried mukusule with dofhi (morogo with peanut sauce) (CCC)

Zambia

• Bean leaves with peanuts 🔗1
• Ndiwo (bean leaves or pea shoots) (🔗1)
• Chidulo (burnt bean stalk vinegar) (🔗1)
• Kutendela (peanut powder)
• Ifisashi (greens and peanuts) (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)

Zimbabwe

• Pumpkin in peanut sauce (CCC)
• Okra in peanut sauce (CCC)
• Chicken in peanut sauce (CCC)
• Mutakura (bambara groundnuts, peanuts, cowpeas) 🔗1