Easy African dinner recipes
41 recipes
Shakshuka, peanut stews, jollof rice and Moroccan tagines. The quickest is Microwave chraime (spicy North African fish in tomato sauce), ready in 18 minutes.

Harissa butter beans with garlicky yogurt
20 min

Moroccan-spiced couscous with chickpeas and carrots
25 min

Harissa beef and couscous
30 min

Harissa chicken with couscous
30 min

Sheet pan harissa chickpeas and carrots with couscous
40 min

Shiro wat
40 min

West African–style peanut stew with sweet potatoes
45 min

Ethiopian cabbage and potatoes (atakilt wat)
50 min

Sheet pan suya tofu with peppers and onions
55 min

Microwave chraime (spicy North African fish in tomato sauce)
18 min

Harissa salmon with couscous
25 min

Akara (black-eyed pea fritters) with pepper sauce
40 min

Beef tibs (Ethiopian sautéed beef)
40 min

Chicken suya
40 min

Kenyan coconut kidney beans (maharagwe) with rice
40 min

Shakshuka with toast for dipping
40 min

Sukuma wiki with ugali and eggs (Kenyan collard greens)
40 min

Bean bunny chow (South African curry in a bread bowl)
45 min

Air fryer peri peri chicken
50 min

Ethiopian red lentil stew (misir wot)
55 min

Instant Pot jollof rice
55 min

Moroccan couscous with tfaya (caramelized onions and raisins)
55 min

Nigerian fried rice
55 min

Chicken jollof rice
60 min

Moroccan chicken stew with chickpeas
60 min

Moroccan harira
60 min

Vegetable pilau (East African spiced rice)
60 min

Chicken pilau
65 min

Nigerian peppered chicken
70 min

Bobotie (South African curried beef bake)
75 min

Doro wat
80 min

Whole roasted harissa cauliflower with couscous
90 min

Chakalaka and pap (South African beans and cornmeal)
40 min

Moroccan turkey kefta tagine with eggs
50 min

Ethiopian-spiced red lentils and collard greens
55 min

Beef suya (Nigerian spiced beef)
60 min

Jollof spaghetti
60 min

Koshari (Egyptian lentils, rice and pasta)
70 min

Kuku paka (Kenyan coconut chicken curry)
70 min

Chicken yassa
75 min

Thieboudienne (Senegalese fish and rice)
100 min
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