Pan Fried Akara
Akara Pancakes – Healthy Akara Recipe -Pankara
Hello Foodie fam- this is another great recipe for those counting calories and those watching the oil content in their diet. The recipe was inspired by Sunday morning pancake runs and my husband’s aversion for deep fried foods. It’s classic Akara without all the oil that comes with deep frying, the taste is amazingly the same as the deep fried version. Feel free to take the recipe from breakfast to supper by adding in some chopped shrimp or shredded chicken or serving the akara with a side of sauced meat. I made use of vegetable oil for the lighter colored akara pictured and Palm oil for the more yellow colored version. So many people ended up trying out this recipe and it started the #PankaraRevolution. If using bean powder, combine 1 cup powder with 1/3 cup water and 1 egg; everything else stays the same.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup peeled beans
- 2 large eggs
- Salt- to taste
- Chopped Onion & fresh pepper – to taste
- Vegetable or palm oil – 1 tablespoon
Direction:
- Puree the beans with a little 1/2 cup of water to form a thick paste
- Add in all left over ingredients (except oil), thoroughly combine
- Place a small frying pan on medium heat, add in a little bit of oil. Add about a fourth of the bean batter, cook until you notice some bubbles in the akara, flip over and cook on the other side until golden. Repeat step until all the batter is fried.
Serve with Pap or pepper Sauce. Enjoy!
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This recipe it just what I needed! Well, almost as the technique helps me eliminate the excess oil required in deep frying but I must find a way to eliminate the egg to make this a completely vegan-friendly dish.
Can you please suggest an alternative to eggs in this recipe?
Thanks!
Hi. Please did you succeed in removing the eggs? Please share. 😁
You can use psyllium husk as your binder, tried and tested.
Thank you so much for these amazing recipes. Will try the panakara tomorrow
Let me know how it goes.
hi please can I use kidney beans in place of the black eyed beans?
I will suggest chickpeas or lentils over kidney beans
If chickpea or lentils what will be the measures please. I’ve some sitting in my pantry and I’ve being wondering what else to use them for plus my family loves that traditional pap and akara/bread/moin-moin Saturday breakfast
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Tried this. Scratch that. Made! this on Saturday and it was awesome! You can just place it between slices of bread for a delicious #pankara sandwich.
yeiiiii! thanks for the feedback.
I tried it but it didn’t come out fine. I guess its cos I ground onions in it. I used left over of moimoi batter.
Moimoi batter and akara batter have different consistencies. Moimoi batter has more water which will make it harder to pan fry
haha..I’m laughing at myself..I tried to make this Pankara…it looked something like thick scrambled egg… Please tell me is the Tablespoon of Oil for the Batter mix or just for the frying ?
hahhaha.. that’s too funny. The oil is for frying. how thick was your batter? did you fry to scramble it? it should be prepared like pancake.
Hi Ronke, can one make this with the unpeeled beans? I didn’t even know it was possible to make moimoi or akara without peeling the beans and I’ve been suffering all this while, lol. You can’t imagine how excited to learn of this…
Yes, you most definitely can! unpeeled beans is the truth. Checkout the many variations we did here
Wow, i tried it this morning n everyone loved it.its anoda way of making akara without having to soak d bean in oil.
This is great! thanks for feedback.
I noticed you never mentioned adding Maggi as part of the recipes in making of the akara (both the akara pancakes) why please?
I didn’t grow up adding maggi to akara, we only used salt & pepper. I have grown to prefer the taste without maggi.
How about bean flour, is it same process
1 cup powder, 1/4 cup water and 1 egg.
this looks great will definitely try this.
let us know how it turns out
Whao! It amazing
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Your Pan Fried Akara looks good. will pass on your recipe to my daughter who love pancakes.
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Fantastic recipe…. it turned out perfect Thanks for sharing… continue to good work.. Next Recipe
Great!
I try dis, it was lovely, i think it will reduce the consumption of vegetable oil. Thanks for the recipe.
you are most welcome, thanks for the feedback.
I love this & i’ll try it
let us know how it turns out
Something new for me but looks like am going to love it , what are white bean called ?
great! these are regular black eyed peas with the skin removed.
I tried it though I used beans flour instead. I used 3/4 cup beans flour and 3/4 cup water. It was nice and hubby liked it too!
great!
This has to be my new fav, tried it this morn superb I added a lil twist to mine
That’s great!
Sounds delicious!
it is :)
Thanks for the great recipe. Do you think it’ll turn out OK without the eggs?
Yes you can… you just need to incorporate air into the batter by whisking it until fluffy.
Love the idea will defo try it
let us know how it turns out
Love this will definately try it!
awesome! keep us posted
I will try it, I love the palm oil idea.
great! excited for your feedback