About this dish
Deep-fried black-eyed pea fritters, split and filled with shrimp and a spicy sauce.
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Ingredients
🫘2 cups black-eyed peas, soaked and peeled
🧅1 onion, chopped
🍤200g dried shrimp
🌴Palm oil, for frying
Method
Serves 21
Blend the peeled beans with onion into a thick, airy paste, whipping well.2
Shape into oval patties.3
Deep-fry in palm oil until golden and crisp.4
Split each fritter open and fill with a spicy shrimp sauce (vatapá) and dried shrimp.5
Serve hot.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Acarajé is a specialty of Bahia, Brazil, with deep Afro-Brazilian roots, traditionally sold by women called baianas in white dress.
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