Early morning street food; Bean cake.

Good steemits, its a beautiful saturday morning here in ilorin. This morning my little brothers came to wake me up around 7:30am so I would help me to buy Bean cake popularly known as "Akara" (yoruba name). Mostly this street food are normally sold early in the morning between the hours of 7am to around 10:30am depending on how fast the sale is. It is also sold late in the evening/night between the hours of 7:30pm to around 10:30pm too. The sellers usually pick a regular more convenient time. Those that will sell in the morning, will not sell at night and vice versa.

METHOD OF PREPARATION

To prepare the bean cake, obviously from the name it is made from beans. The beans is soaked till its soft, dehull and grinded with onions and big red pepper. After grinding, it is mixed but not until its floating soft. Just a little mixing is enough, after which it is fried in hot vegetable oil as seen below.

It is then fried till its crispy brown as seen in the picture below.

This woman as been doing this business for the past 10 years or more than. And im sure its one of the things she used in training her children to school. Although some of her children normally help her out. Mainly she uses firewood because its saves cost and she sells bread with it because the Beans cake is usually eaten with bread. The bread are normally freshly baked bread and she buys them from the bakers early in the morning. Above all, she keeps a clean environment.

A lot of people usually come to buy from her and if you dont get there early, you might not be able to buy on time.

Below is a picture of a close look of what the Bean cake looks like. It is normally sold inside old newspaper wrapped in a nylon.

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