West Africa · Breakfast
Hausa Koko with Koose (Spiced Millet Porridge with Deep-Fried Bean Cakes)
Velvety spiced fermented millet porridge paired with feather-light, crispy deep-fried black-eyed pea fritters.
The story
Hausa Koko with Koose is Ghana's quintessential street-side morning breakfast, originally brought by the Hausa and Northern diaspora and now embraced nationwide in Zongo communities and urban hubs. The porridge is deeply spiced with indigenous grains of Selim (hwentia), calabash nutmeg, and ginger, which deliver a thermogenic morning boost alongside gentle lactic sourness. The accompanying bean cake, Koose, achieves its signature cloud-like interior and crisp outer crust through intensive hand-aeration of the black-eyed pea paste before quick deep-frying.
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