African Breakfast Recipes

African breakfast recipes help you start your day right the African way. Find your favorite dish in the library of both traditional and modern recipes. Every country has its specialty, so take a fascinating food trip without leaving home.

Mandazi in Kenya, akara in Nigeria, and mealie in South Africa. Of course, there’s so much more. Try a filling shakshuka if you love eggs for breakfast. A lot of people have coffee and bread for breakfast. If that’s how you roll, try chapati, vitumbua, or Koeksisters with a cup of coffee or chai.

  • Coconut Puff-Puff (Deep-Fried Coconut Dough)

  • Pancakes (African Style)

  • Mandazi (East African Doughnuts)

  • African Fish Rolls (Fish Pies)

  • Bobotie Recipe

  • Easy Mandazi Without Yeast

  • Plantain Bread (Plantain Cake)

  • Aebleskiver Danish Pancakes

  • Puff-Puff (Deep fried dough)

  • Chapati Recipe

  • Black Eyed Peas Fritters (Akara)

  • Baked Plantain Frittata (Baked Plantain and Eggs)

  • Plantain Pancake

  • Bunny Chow

  • Vitumbua (Coconut Rice Pancakes)

  • Vetkoek

  • Plantain Fritters (Klako)

  • Pampoenkoekies (South African Pumpkin Fritters)

  • Banana Puff puff

  • Traditional Koeksisters

  • Soft Mini Mandazi

  • Accra Cassava (Kouti, Cassava Fritters)

  • Homemade Akamu (Pap, Ogi, Corn Porridge)

  • Nigerian Buns

  • No Yeast Puff Puff

  • Tatale (African Plantain Pancakes)

  • African Doughnut (Drop Doughnut)

  • Stuffed Baked Plantains

  • Whole Wheat Accra Bananas (Deep Fried Bananas Fritters)

  • Accra Banana (Banana Fritters)