Cameroon Bananaroon - Cameroonian Crepes Are Next In Our Travels
On our journey to discover Cameroonian pancakes, we found many recipes for akara. For those of you who may not have read some of our other African pancake recipe, akara is a black eyed pea type of pancake. In Cameroon they aren't flat like in the other African countries we've visited. Instead they are shaped like balls and look more like fritters. So we opted not to make Cameroonian akara on this particular journey. We did run across a recipe for African crepes from Cameroon in our search, so we decided to go ahead and give it a try. For Cameroonian crepes, you will need the following: 140 grams of flour 50 grams of sugar pinch of salt 360 milliliters of milk 4 large, ripe bananas mashed oil for frying powdered sugar for dusting The first thing we did was mash the bananas. Our bananas were quite ripe with lots of brown spots on the outside, so we were able to mash them quite easily. We started out using a fork to mash them, but switched to...