- Wheat flour, sugar, yeast, salt, water (beignets)
- Black-eyed peas or red beans
- Tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, oil
- Stock cubes, crayfish
Beignets-Haricot
Beignets-Haricot
Beignets-haricot is Cameroon's classic breakfast: soft, slightly sweet deep-fried puffs (puff puff) scooped into savory stewed beans.
The dough rises about two hours before frying to golden puffs; the beans simmer in a tomato, onion, garlic and ginger sauce with oil and crayfish until thick. Filling and cheap, it fuels the morning from market corners in every city.
Key ingredients
Where to try it
- Street stalls and market corners in every city at breakfast time.
- Yaounde's 'Tchop et Yamo', the Cameroonian fast-food chain built around it.