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Nigeria · Ogun State (Egba, Yoruba south-west)
Kokoro are the long crunchy corn sticks of Ogun State, sold in bundles by hawkers along the roads out of Abeokuta and at motor parks everywhere in the south-west. A dough of coarse cornmeal and garri (or flour), lightly sweetened and sometimes spiced with ginger and chilli, is cooked with boiling water like eba, cooled, rolled into thin sticks and deep-fried until hard and golden. They keep for weeks and crack loudly when bitten.
The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.