What's it going to be? Pressure cooker stew or slow cooker stew? This North African-inspired recipe can be made in either handy appliance.

Perloo is a one-pot rice dish with origins in West African cuisine, closely linked to Gullah Geechee traditions. It typically consists of rice simmered in a seasoned broth, combined with chicken, sausage, or seafood.

Fufu is a staple of West African cuisine you can easily serve with stews and soups to complete a delicious and satisfying meal. Traditionally made from cassava root and green plantains, it is a smooth, dense, soul-satisfying, and mild-flavored side dish that turns almost any dinner into finger food.

This slow-simmered recipe for African-style oxtail stew is rich in flavor with celery, onion, garlic, kidney beans, beef bouillon, and beef oxtail.

Ramped up with green olives and preserved lemons for a traditional slow-cooked Moroccan recipe with juicy chicken thighs, onions, and spices. The aroma wafting from your kitchen will have the entire family crowding around. And don't panic if you don't have specialized equipment! You can do this surprisingly simple dish without a tagine.

Bunny Chow -Deliciously Tasty South African Street food with made with aromatic spices, meat, chickpeas and potatoes served in hollow bread. A one of a Kind Sandwich!

New Mexico chili powder gives this stew a smokey flavor with just a hint of spice to it. If you use a different chili variety, you may need to scale the measurement back according to your heat preferences.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the tamale: cooked corn dough formed around a spicy filling, all wrapped up in a corn husk and steamed. Tamales are pure simplicity. Down in the Mississippi Delta, that mysterious ellipse of land that runs west of Highway 55 from Vicksburg to Memphis, the "hot tamale" is king, the result of the cultural and culinary influence of migrant Mexican workers who, around the turn of the last century, taught their African-American field-mates the wonders of this highly nutritious, cheap, comforting, and communicable dish. They remain to the day as much a part of the Delta as the blues. This recipe first appeared in Season 13 of Good Eats.Photo by Lynne Calamia

After making Puff Puff countless times in the past 10 years, let me teach you how to make the perfect Puff Puff. This West African snack will be your new favorite. Fluffy, slightly sweet, great flavor and the perfect breakfast or appetizer. Don't miss the recipe video.

African goat stew is a popular lip-smacking delicacy in many Nigerian homes. This delicious recipe combines excellent taste and nutritious goodness in a meal that would improve whatever it is paired with!

Shakshuka -A flavorful North African baked egg dish with sautéed peppers, tomatoes and spices, topped with eggs and herbs.

Make this easy harissa paste with dried chiles, garlic, and warm North African spices and keep it in the fridge for use on meat, chicken, fish, or even veggies. You can also stir in a bit of harissa in your soups and stews or to add a little kick to your shakshuka or hummus!

Buh-bye, dinner rut!

Here’s my favorite recipe in Toni Tipton-Martin’s excellent and invaluable “Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking” (2019). It’s a remix of one that the chef Nathaniel Burton collected into his 1978 opus, “Creole Feast: Fifteen Master Chefs of New Orleans Reveal Their Secrets,” and one that Tipton-Martin glossed-up with lemon zest, juice and extra butter, a technique she learned from the restaurateur B. Smith’s 2009 collection of recipes, “B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style.” It’s a dish of smothered pork chops, essentially, made into something glorious and elegant. “The food history of Blacks in America has been a story of the food of survival,” she told me in an interview. “We need to start celebrating the food they made at work."

Gullah red rice was derived from the West-African dish Jollof rice. It has an intense tomato flavor but it's not overly acidic thanks to the addition of sugar. Adding smoked pork sausage gives the rice a subtle smokiness as well. This is a robust side dish!

Moroccan Chicken with Ras El Hanout, garlic and lemon - a simple healthy recipe, using skinless chicken thighs, bursting with North African flavor! Delicious, fast and easy! Grill it or pan-sear it!

Shakshuka is a North African and Middle Eastern meal of poached eggs in a simmering tomato sauce with spices. It's easy, healthy and takes less than 30 minutes to make. Watch the video below to see how I make it in my kitchen!