Okele

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Okele is a Yoruba group of starchy foods eaten with soups. In Nigerian Pidgin English it’s called “swallows.” It can be made from yam, fermented cassava, cassava granules with hot water, plantain, wheat flour, yam flour, or cocoyam, and also from rice, millet, sorghum, corn, and potato. In Yoruba cuisine, okele includes iyan (pounded yam), eba, fufu, amala, lafun, semo, poundo, and pupuru.