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.

  • African Spicy Oxtail Stew

  • Stewed Spinach (African Style)

  • Poulet DG

  • Marinated Grilled Shrimp

  • Eru Soup (Spinach or Okazi Leaves)

  • Groundnut Soup

  • Yassa Chicken

  • Fish Pepper Soup

  • Grilled Peri Peri Chicken

  • Pork Chitterlings (Chitlins)

  • Nigerian Jollof Rice

  • Slow Cooker Black Eyed Peas

  • Bobotie Recipe

  • Pepperpot

  • Black-Eyed Pea Soup

  • Chicken Tagine (Plus VIDEO)

  • Chicken Fricassee

  • Chakalaka

  • Maafe (West African Peanut Soup)

  • Ghana Jollof Rice

  • Sukuma Wiki

  • Southern Black Eyed Peas Recipe

  • Lentil Soup Recipe

  • Hoppin John

  • Thieboudienne/Ceebu Jen (Poisson au Riz)

  • Tasty Fish Pie Recipe

  • Palm Nut Soup (Banga)

  • Okra Soup

  • Slow Cooker Oxtail Soup

  • Curry Fish

  • Ethiopian Lentil Stew

  • Lemon Pepper Chicken

  • Doro Wat

  • Ogbono Soup

  • Egusi Soup

  • Okra Stew (Plus Video)