DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Achombo
Cameroonian fried puff-puff balls with aromatically seasoned beans.
About Achombo
Precious Nkeih identifies Achombo as the Cameroonian meal of puff-puff and beans, also called Beignets Haricots. Her account connects this combination with university food stalls, longstanding sellers and remembered family dinners.
Sugar sweetens the yeast-risen puff-puff. The beans carry onions, garlic, ginger, celery, parsley and Maggi seasoning, giving the accompaniment a savoury aromatic character beside the dough.
Golden fried balls accompany tender beans. The puff-puff batter produces rounded portions, while the beans remain a separate component of the plate. Dry milk is a source-named optional addition to the dough.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Celery.
Optional additions: Milk.
Product-dependent or unconfirmed: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Achombo
Precious Nkeih’s Cameroonian puff-puff and beans Achombo.
- FlourBase · Puff-puff
- YeastBinder · Puff-puff
- SugarSweetener · Puff-puff
- SaltSeasoning
- Warm waterLiquid · Puff-puff
- Vegetable oil for fryingCooking medium · Puff-puff
- Dry milkBase · Puff-puff · Optional
- BeansBase · BeansIngredient page not linked
- Oil for beansCooking medium · BeansIngredient page not linked
- OnionsAromatic · Beans
- GarlicAromatic · Beans
- GingerAromatic · Beans
- CeleryAromatic · Beans
- ParsleyAromatic · Beans
- Maggi seasoningSeasoning · BeansIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) unconfirmed. Generic flour cereal unspecified; no automatic wheat identity.
- Yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Used in puff-puff and beans.
- Warm water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit puff-puff water; bean boiling/optional soaking medium not specified, no inferred water allocation.
- Vegetable oil for frying: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Dry milk (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Source optional ajebutter dough addition.
- Beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Species unspecified; dried-bean branch selected.
- Oil for beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact oil unspecified; not assumed identical to puff-puff vegetable oil.
- Onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Celery: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Celery source-confirmed
- Parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Maggi seasoning: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named product with full formula unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Cameroon
- CameroonCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Cameroonian Cuisine
- Sawa Coastal CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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