Okele, also known as "swallows" in pidgin Nigeria English, is a Yoruba food category 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, potato and cocoyam. Okele can also be made from rice, millet, sorghum and corn. Okele in Yoruba cuisine includes iyan (pounded yam), eba, fufu, amala, lafun, semo, poundo, pupuru and potato fufu.

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  • Iyan (pounded yam), with Egusi soup
  • Yoruba fufu
  • Amala topped with Ewedu
  • Eba
  • Semo
  • Lafun in soup
  • Pupuru