African Dinner Recipes

Feel the full flavors of African cuisine with these easy dinner recipes in the comfort of your own home. Any recipe from this collection turns your weeknights into something special.

Thieboudienne is a classic chicken and vegetable one-pot meal filled with flavor. And since we have so much ocean around Africa, fish is a given, like tasty fish pie for an African twist on shepherd’s pie. And, of course, we can’t forget our beloved okra stew. You’ll love spicy curry fish and jollof rice and chicken for traditional African recipes.

  • Grill Tilapia (African Style)

  • African Yam Soup (Stew)

  • Nigerian Fried Rice

  • African Rice and Beans

  • Kondres (Spicy Stewed Plantains)

  • Achu Soup (Yellow Soup)

  • Cassava Leaf Soup

  • Curried Goat Stew

  • Ekwang (Ekpang Nkukwo)

  • Bitter Leaf Soup

  • African Chicken Pepper Soup

  • Githeri (Boiled Corn and Beans)

  • Mbongo Tchobi (African Spicy Black Stew)

  • Stuffed Baked Plantains

  • Egusi Soup With Lumps

  • Afang Soup (Spinach and Okazi Leaves)

  • Sese Plantains

  • African Black Bean Stew

  • Cameroon Beef Jollof Rice