Healthy African Recipes

Up your health-food game with flavor. From Ethiopian cabbage to traditional jollof rice, you’ve got what you need to improve your diet without feeling deprived.

Try my version of kachumbari for a delicious snack or DIY plantain flour if you’re looking for a gluten-free alternative.

  • Koki Beans

  • Stewed Spinach (African Style)

  • Marinated Grilled Shrimp

  • Eru Soup (Spinach or Okazi Leaves)

  • Fish Pepper Soup

  • Ethiopian Cabbage

  • Nigerian Jollof Rice

  • Chakalaka

  • Pineapple Ginger Juice (West African)

  • Ugali (Corn Fufu)

  • Mango Lemonade

  • Kachumbari

  • Plantain Flour

  • Sukuma Wiki

  • Southern Black Eyed Peas Recipe

  • Moi Moi Recipe

  • Ethiopian Lentil Stew

  • Cassava FuFu/Water Fufu

  • Whole Baked Sea Bass

  • Irio (Mashed Sweet Potato with Peas and Corn)

  • Porridge yams (Potash, Asaro)

  • Red Red (African Stewed Black-eyed peas)

  • Baked Plantain Frittata (Baked Plantain and Eggs)

  • Grill Pineapple Black Bean Salsa

  • Ethiopian Collard Greens

  • Cabbage Egusi Soup

  • Mpuh Fish ( Spicy fish in plantain pudding)

  • Vitumbua (Coconut Rice Pancakes)

  • Ethiopian Yataklete Kilkil (Plus Video)

  • Fish Yassa

  • Crunchies (South African)

  • Vegetable Samosas

  • Pumpkin Leaves (Ugu) Soup

  • Njama Njama and FuFu

  • Grill Tilapia (African Style)