Acarajé - Latin American Recipe

Acarajé

🌍 Latin American, Bahia, Brazil Difficulty: ●●●○○

Ingredients

• (Fritters) 500g black-eyed peas (soaked, peeled)
• 1 onion (grated)
• salt
• dendê oil for frying. Filling: vatapá (bread, shrimp, peanuts, cashews, coconut milk, ginger, dendê)
• caruru (okra, onion, dried shrimp, dendê)
• dried shrimp
• hot pepper sauce

Method

1. Blending — Blend soaked, peeled black-eyed peas with onion and salt to fluffy batter.
2. Frying — Fry large spoonfuls in hot dendê oil until golden, 4 min per side.
3. Draining — Drain. Split fritter, fill with vatapá, caruru, dried shrimp, hot sauce.

Tags: 500g black-eyed peas, onion, dendê oil for frying. filling: vatapá, caruru, shrimp · Source: Brittani's Almanac