Serves 4 Prep time: 10 minutes | Cooking time: 30minutes This simple but flavourful tomato-based stew is popular in West African cuisine where it is batch-cooked and kept in the fridge or freezer to be served with a variety of accompaniments such as rice, yam, potatoes, plain boiled b

Serves 4 Prep time: 15 minutes, plus marinating time | Cooking time: 25 minutes Cayenne and ginger spiced plantain is layered up with malt-marinated chicken to make this impressive Ghanaian-style burger. Add a dollop of hot pepper mayonnaise and a little peanut butter for this new tak

Serves 4 Prep time: 5 minutes | Cooking time: 15 minutes A Nigerian-inspired take on fried rice, this quick and easy dish is a brilliant way to use leftover rice. By simply adding store cupboard ingredients and items found in your freezer, this visually appealing dish is sure to pull

Serves 4 Prep time: 10 minutes | Cooking time: 40-45 minutes Probably the most popular rice dish in West Africa, Jollof rice gets its name from the Wolof language where it is known as benachin meaning ‘one pot’. Its vibrant reddish-orange colour makes this dish visually appealing, whi

Serves 4 Prep time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 3 hours 10 minutes Providing two of your five-a-day, this one-pot vegetable curry gets its deliciously sweet flavour from the plantain and a gentle kick from the chilli, which can be adjusted to suit your preference. Black-eye beans can b