{{Short description|Yoruba food category of starchy mashed foods eaten with soups}} '''''Okele''''', also known as "swallow" in Nigerian English, is a Yoruba food category for various starchy foods eaten with soups.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Up the Mountain Called Okele |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/up-the-mountain-called-okele/5QUxnG-Ngy6i3A |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}</ref> Ingredients used to make okele include yam, fermented cassava, cassava granules with hot water, plantain, wheat flour, yam flour, potato and cocoyam.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Okele and the man |url=https://nigeriang.com/opinion/okele-and-the-man/4539/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Nigeria NG |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-11-15 |title=Nigerian Staple Foods: Solid Meals aka Swallow |url=https://foodieinlagos.com/nigerian-staple-foods-solid-meals-aka-swallow/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Foodie in Lagos |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Okele Feast |url=https://www.mychopchop.ca/products/okele-feast |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Mychopchop |language=en}}</ref>
== Gallery == {{Gallery |File:Egusi soup with pounded yam and assorted meats.jpg|Iyan (pounded yam), with Egusi soup |File:Fufu swallow.jpg|Yoruba fufu |File:Amala ati Ewedu and Ogunfe.png|Amala topped with Ewedu |File:Eba (swallow food).jpg|Eba |File:Semo (swallow food).jpg|Semo |File:Amala and ewedu.jpg|Lafun in soup |File:Pupuru.jpg|Pupuru }}
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Category:Yoruba cuisine {{Nigeria-cuisine-stub}}