Acarajé
Acarajé is a snack food from northeastern Brazil. The main ingredients are peeled and ground cowpeas , which are made into a dough, shaped into balls and fried in palm oil . For consumption, they are usually broken open or cut and filled with seasoning pastes such as vatapá or caruru , tomato salad and / or prawns.
Acarajé can be bought as a snack, especially in the streets of Salvador da Bahia . Today, most of the street vendors in Bahia are women. You can easily recognize them by their white cotton clothes and the scarf that they wear wrapped around their heads. These women, called baianas , often appear as a motif in the artwork of this region.
This recipe has its origin in West Africa. In parts of Nigeria , in Ghana , Togo and in Benin it is still produced today, but sometimes under other names such as Akara or Kosai (Nigeria) or Koose (Ghana).
Web links
- Brazil in the Acaraje 'War'. In: sport.de. 2014, archived from the original on July 17, 2014 ; Retrieved November 25, 2017 .