Sweet Akara - a Twist on Nigerian Bean Cakes (Collab With Africa Everyday) 

You and Babatunde finding each other has led to one of the most wholesome, entertaining, and enlightening collaborations in RU-vid history. Thru you, I have discovered Babatunde, and his outlook, enthusiasm for cooking, and almost childlike joy in the simple things in life is a breath of fresh air in this day and age. He's a Nigerian duplicate of YOU in fact.

Holy crap. This is totally gluten free! I think I could make these and have fritters! Thanks Shrimp!

Babatunde seems like such a positive person and i really enjoy his videos. And it is very kind of you to help him along with his channel since it has helped him a lot and improved his life.

My family knows I watch all your vids. My 13 yo son heard your voice and asked what you were doing today, i said "Rubbing beans to make donuts" i thought he was going to laugh himself to death! It was nice to sit and watch this together though. 😂

I would have added a little vanilla to the batter.

Love these Africa Everyday collabs 🇿🇦🇬🇧

Adding a little baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) helps the skins separate more easily, in the same way that lye softens the outer layer of field corn to make masa for tortillas and tamales.

i think a sweet and spicy version with scotch bonnet and honey would probably be delicious

Shrimp you are wonderful, I'm struggling with my mental health at the moment, it's a fairly regular occurrence for me, your videos give me some much needed head space, just a bubble of serenity. Thank you ❤

I have come to enjoy the phrase "my friend Babatunde in Nigeria". much love to you both

My family has been making your stuffed pancakes. But we’ve been calling them atomic crepes. My kids love them

There is a savoury Ukrainian dish somewhat like a pasty called Pirozhok, however the dough of that also tastes like doughnut dough. It's the new series no one asked for - savoury dishes that taste like doughnuts!

I hope one day we get an in person collab between Mike and Babatunde and they cook together

After deep frying, set them on a wire rack to let the excess oil drip below. They will be crispier this way than in direct contact with paper towel (or another fritter) that keeps the moisture in to steam the crispy coating leaving it soft. I only recently learned this. I always add salt to my sweets too. 😊👍

I'm Nigerian and love akara and this sweet version sounds interesting! Apple desserts are my fave and I'll have to give it a try

My mom makes these all the time, but I never liked them growing up. She made them with black eye peas. I’d probably like them now, but I never really gave them a shot. This might make me try them out again.

These look good. I just wanted to say, it says everything about a person when they take whatever privilege or advantages they have and use them to raise other people up, create connections and bring us all closer together. ❤

Really good idea! Nigerian lady here, would have said try puff puff, but I kind of like this idea with the protein! Don’t think babatunde did though lol!

I love the collabs with Africa Everyday, please keep them going 👍

Hello. Are we allowed another video where dice rolls stipulate the ingredients that you're allowed to use? I love all your food videos! 🙂 xx Or do you think you could do a couple of days where you can only make meals from ingredients that are one colour (one colour for day 1 and another for day 2?) I think that would be an interesting challenge! xx

i LOVE the Babatunde crossovers, always interesting to watch both sides of the same thing

Greetings from The Gambia 🇬🇲 very good effort my friend I hope you have a blessed day

I missed this when it was first posted ..... it looks delicious!😊

Japanese mochi balls are made from cooked, ground and kneaded rice, often with a filling of sweet red bean paste. Red bean paste is used for many sweet dishes in japan so i would think most beans could be made into a desert 🙂

Townsends will be very happy to hear it needs more nutmeg

I LOVE this! Wheat messes with my biological systems on several important fronts, so since I can't have donuts, I can't wait to try this!! Now to see what Babatunde's doing. Ta ta!!

Townsends has entered the chat: Nutmeg? (Yaaaas!)

Full of protein, so great!

“The solution is to stop wondering, and try” with that delivery sounded like a quote from a disney movie lol

A touch of safran maybe, in addition to the earlier mentioned vanilla.

I’d love to see your take on Jollof rice since it’s been done Nigerian pepper soup

Just heard about the landslip at Seatown Beach. Hope you're all OK.

Love when you say "My friend Babatunde"

Enjoyable recipe! Watching Babatunde's video now

Here from africa everyday

Mentioning this whilst still watching lest i forget: if you use chickpeas next time for w/e - also remove their husks like this: hummus for instance becomes amazingly smooth and silky if you do! They are fairly easy to remove if you soak them in a bit of salt water, then rub them dry in a kitchen towel. Still a bit of work but i feel it's totally worth it, especially if you do a bigger batch :)

I really love these videos, I want to visit Nigeria now. I never would have before babatunde

As a Nigerian, I'm actually glad to see my traditional dish gaining attention of people from different parts of the world, and I don't really mind you making your experiments to see what magic you can make out if it. I'm definitely going to try making the sweet akara, but I won't go all out with the sugar as you did.

I really enjoy your channel for years now if I am right. Thank you

The sweet/savoury comparison reminds me of a few years ago, when I was an EU citizen, and most Friday evenings on the way home from work I would visit the KLM Crowne Lounge at Schiphol. They did the most wonderful savoury doughnuts - coated in salt rather than sugar, and a cream cheese filling (possibly Boursin) rather than Jam.

Awsome idea! I make scrabbled eggs with a splash of milk, sugar and butter till they cook generously

how about adding a little flour and some yeast into the mix? could you make a bean loaf this way or bean baps/cobs/rolls/bread cakes?

Love this idea! And love ya shrimp!

Love the Babatunde collabs

Congratulations! You invented the first kinda sweet falafel. I must try this one for sure.

Use soybeans and you can have tofu, the whey for soup stock AND akara . To make akara use the ground soybeans you have left from the grinding to make the milk for the tofu. put parchment paper on a cookie sheet and spread the soybean 'grounds' on it, put it in a 275 degree oven until it is dry stir often. You can use this as a meat substitute. Best tho when mixed with ground beef or turkey or chicken. You can buy 50# of whole soybeans for animal feed pretty darn cheap. Never buy SEED as it is inoculated with chemicals . I ate plenty of this stuff when funds were very tight. I no longer make use of soybeans because no need to be really really thrifty. It is amazing how much food you can get from that 50# bag.

Red bean desserts are very common in Japan

Not even going to lie. These look class, I wonder how they would be as a batter for banana or pear fritters?

Certainly more nutritious than donuts!!!! Will definitely try this! Could be served with a dab of apple purée. They sound lovely and crunchy!

This is a keeper. I will be doing this. In a way this is similar to how I prepare falafel, but using garbanzos and savoury ingredients. Thank you for making this video.

Atomic Shrimp, considering your name, it would be fitting for you to try the Brazilian version of acará. We eat it with a bread and shrimp porridge called Vatapá, cooked shrimps, and sometimes a vinagrette and an Okra salada called caruru.

I love these videos!

brilliant!

Oo these look really good, I wanna try making them or something similar

Great to see that you are doing another Nigerian dish. You probably don't remember but I emailed you a while ago to offer to send you some Kilishi (a bit like jerky). You should try to get hold of some! I have left Nigeria now, but your video brings back good memories of our time there!

I’m trying these tomorrow. I’m GF and I yearn for a doughnut. I hope they taste as good as yours obviously did.💕Thank you.

I've heard you can even make chocolate truffles with cooked white beans, if they're blended and mixed with cacao powder and vanilla... I never tried it, though

Oh, Atomic Shrimp, what have you done??? Now I'm HUNGRY. Great idea, super video. Thank you.

I'd call them apple fritters.Those are simply made with flour for the starch.

This recipe will be tried this week. It's most interesting. I like to use new starchy ingredients. I also made lentil cookies, strange and addictive is all I'll say.

Brilliant 👍

love love love mwah mwah

Why people still remove the bean skin, is due to that traditionally, Akara was turned into puree in a big wooden mortar (how I regret not buying one), then the skins remain almost intact if you leave them on, a blender choppes them up. That's why I don't bother. And you should have used coconut oil and like bananas or mangos instead and maybe some shredded coconut, to make it more African. Just a thought. I will never forget my coconut palm tree right outside my door that constantly tried to kill me. Thank god for the natives that saved this idiot toubab by climbing up and chopping the nuts off.

Interesting as always! Love checking out this channel ^-^

Mm these look good I will have to have a go a lt making some

These look so amazing. I’m gonna make them next week (sweet ones and the savoury ones too)

Those look delicious & thanks Atomic shrimp 😋

Brilliant as always 💙uk

They look delicious!

Thankyou for sharing.

mochi has a red bean filling that is sweet and very good

Even though I have all notifications turned on I didn't receive your notification but I did receive babatunde's!

This reminds me of the bean based buns they serve with shrimps (minus the sweet of course) in brazil called Acarajé... must have been brought over by slaves. They fry it in palm oil, giving it a reddish brown colour

1:47 "With so many things, if you're wondering about it, the solution is to stop wondering and try" woah. it's not often i have to stop a video and have a think for a second

Second youtube video i watch today that happen to mention that peanuts are beans, I did not know this and now my world is shattered.

aaah i wish i could do that too i'll do it one day

I’ll be honest here, I prefer Babatunde doing our recipes. He really struggles to get equivalent ingredients whereas we (including you) have access to a far wider range of ingredients and global produce. To be clear, this is a POSITIVE comment. 😂 Keep up the good work fella and, as always, stay safe!

That "oh yeah" said it all

Think raisins would be nice in this.

In my culture we eat boiled seasoned green peanuts. I would make them whenever I visited my sister since her little girls loved them and once when I arrived, my oldest niece said "please make the beans!" because she thought the boiled peanuts were beans (technically they are of course). I had thought that they reminded me of spicy pintos or kidney beans but it was fun to see where her mind took her when eating boiled peanuts.

I wanna try this out

these kinda remind me of small versions of funnel cakes. maybe a very light dusting of some powdered sugar on top would go nicely too.

Try replacing sugar with brown sugar or for best result use Jaggery + freshly ground cardomen instead of sugar + nutmeg

What you've made here is very close to something my x wife used to make with split peas. It was really good.

Lol. Your friend tasted his, and the first thing he said was Hot! Great minds. 😁

Much love to Babatunde❤

Great to find something new that's gluten free. It can get very frustrating trying to find something on a menu in a coffee shop when the staff are untrained for gluten free ingredients. Recently asked for a gluten free salad in a coffee shop, they served me a plate of shrubbery, green lettuce and peas, nothing else!!! 😭 More gluten free pleeeeeeeze!!!

Hi Shrimp! Long time watcher, first time commenter. I could see this recipe benefiting from some more cultural influences - in East Asia, they use sweet red bean paste in similar recipes (check out Dorayaki). I wonder if this recipe would benefit from a red bean variety?

Those look amazing

Been a while since the last collaboration!

I wonder if substituting the chopped apple for chopped dried fruit (prunes or dates) but keeping the blended apple would add a bit of fruity complexity to it.

You could also try using beans as chestnut replacement

Always wondered what a sweet one would look since the Townsend rock hard ones ages ago

I was right to assume that these would work. Many eastern dishes include sweet bean paste as an ingredient, no surprise that a bean paste donut would be good.

My partner said "Is this a scam? same/similar words as Akara by Mr. Mange Toute" Love your videos

Thinking bean batter pineapple fritters.

That food processor is so quiet and powerful. What's the brand? If you don't mind me asking.

"Massaging and rubbing them until the pop". Ok then. lol

akara is often a biproduct of making soy milk. i used to make a lot of it.

First the migraine with aura now this ur videos really match me