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African cooking – Sugar peanuts

I love the Congo Cookbook, it’s a great source of inspiration as well as recipes. One of my favourite snacks is sugar peanuts. All over West and Central Africa you’ll find sellers of these. In Mali I used to buy them in old whisky bottles! Go here to the cook book and you’ll find the recipe.

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