kakro
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kakro (uncountable)
- A ball of mashed plantain and corn dough which is then fried.
- 1965, Alexander Coleridge Vanderpuije Baka Tetteh-Lartey, The Schooldays of Shango Solomon, page 14:
- In any case they became a source of vexation to a certain woman who used to fry kakro, a kind of bun made from a mixture of plantain and corn dough, outside the walls of her house.
- 1970, J. Benibengor Blay, Coconut Boy, page 18:
- With Aho's group the younger men ate cooked cassava, peanut and kabana fish, kakro, tarts, beans and abodo
- 1973, Africa Special Report:
- On a bench they lay fresh kakro (gold, crusty, puff balls of crushed plantain and banana), kelewele (crispy fried, yellow and brown slabs of plantain) and several cups of roasted groundnuts.
- 1990, Daniel K. Abbiw, Useful plants of Ghana: West African uses of wild and cultivated plants, →ISBN:
- It is sometimes used as sugar substitute in the preparation ofboodoo (baked corn dough) or kakro (fried corn dough mixed with red plantain).
- A cultivar of cucumber found in Nepal, which is used often fried with sesame, salt, chili, and lemon in balls called ko achar.
- 1975, Selby Ashong-Katai, Confessions of a Bastard: And Other Stories, page 121:
- With that Pepe left with the mother's permission to see the woman nearby who was frying balls of kakro which let out an appetising flavour. The woman smiled at Pepe. He smiled back and took a ball of kakro and threw it into his mouth, "Mother will pay for that," he said after munching it. "Where have you been, schoolboy?" the kakro seller asked.
- 2005, Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit, On Farm Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity in Nepal, →ISBN:
- Most cucumber cultivars were grown in a large area/many households, except Barse kakro, grown by only two households.
- 2017, Kirsten K. Shockey, Christopher Shockey, Fiery Ferments, →ISBN:
- Authentic kakro ko achar uses mustard oil, which has wonderful preservative qualities and flavor but is hard to find.