Okele

Okele, also known as "swallows" in pidgin Nigeria English, is a Yoruba word for various starchy foods eaten with soups. Ingredients used to make okele include yam, fermented cassava, cassava granules with hot water, plantain, wheat flour, yam flour and cocoyam. Okele in Yoruba cuisine includes iyan (pounded yam), eba, fufu, amala, lafun, semo and pupuru.