₦airaland Forum

Welcome, Guest: RegisterLoginWith GoogleTrendingRecentNew

Stats: 3,326,881 members, 8,428,478 topics. Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2026 at 01:13 PM

Toggle theme

Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) - Food (4) - Nairaland

Nairaland ForumNairaland GeneralFoodBeske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) (36812 Views)

1 2 3 4 5 Reply (Go Down)

Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by labake1(f): 4:18pm On Jul 13, 2025
Bloodwritter:
Tastes like fish? As how naw?
As how it tasted in my mouth ni
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Rajosh(m): 4:22pm On Jul 13, 2025
More popularly known as Awara than Beske.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by histemple: 4:24pm On Jul 13, 2025
It's best eaten with Egusi soup.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Nico360: 4:34pm On Jul 13, 2025
TimiofAbuja:
Wara suya beske, ore mi loru jeja lo

Wara is made from soya Beans

Nutritious and sweet

I used to hawk it for my mom when I was small. I sabi do am weller
How do they make it?
i want to try it.
Make i try am out next Sunday afternoon.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Toymax88: 4:39pm On Jul 13, 2025
Starboy
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Griffon: 5:19pm On Jul 13, 2025
That’s awara. It tastes like cr@p.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Emmanuel602(m): 5:21pm On Jul 13, 2025
Mariangeles:
Some food bloggers I follow keep posting it, and hyping the taste.
They call it beske.

Have you ever eaten it?
If you have, how would you describe the taste?
I'd really love to try it, as it looks like something I might like.

Picture credit: Instagram
Nah Tofu be this now, it is called Awara here in the North. One of those highly nutritious street foods in Northern Nigeria.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Bahamas95(m): 5:25pm On Jul 13, 2025
I haven't heard about or seen it before.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by donmik: 6:04pm On Jul 13, 2025
WhiteIverson:
This is Awara nau. 50 naira per piece. I buy 1k own.
Madam abi Oga, it's like Nigeria too much for your place o

Lol

Nairaland should be made interesting this way. Not a place of falsehood and hate
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Goldbw122(m): 6:32pm On Jul 13, 2025
Mariangeles:
Some food bloggers I follow keep posting it, and hyping the taste.
They call it beske.

Have you ever eaten it?
If you have, how would you describe the taste?
I'd really love to try it, as it looks like something I might like.

Picture credit: Instagram
Can someone waybill this nice food, I just like it..
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Lamasta(m): 6:52pm On Jul 13, 2025
Its a northern food I ate it when I was serving in Jigawa back then
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by mayorall(m): 7:34pm On Jul 13, 2025
Mariangeles:
Some food bloggers I follow keep posting it, and hyping the taste.
They call it beske.

Have you ever eaten it?
If you have, how would you describe the taste?
I'd really love to try it, as it looks like something I might like.

Picture credit: Instagram
I make am, I hawk am, I fry am. I chop am. I kon make suggestions to my mama to let us start selling it to make extra income.😃
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Mariangeles(op): 8:13pm On Jul 13, 2025
mayorall:
I make am, I hawk am, I fry am. I chop am. I kon make suggestions to my mama to let us start selling it to make extra income.😃
Really? Tell me about it! 😀

So, have you both started making and selling it again?
It's quite tedious to make from scratch.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Mariangeles(op): 8:15pm On Jul 13, 2025
Goldbw122:
Can someone waybill this nice food, I just like it..
I don't know of any.
Maybe on Instagram, you might get a vendor.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Mariangeles(op): 8:25pm On Jul 13, 2025
armyofone:
Based on the responses to my first, Yes I eat Tofu every now and then. Very bland but fried ones taste okay when eaten with jasmine rice or plainly.

Anything from soya beans 🫘 is bland eg Soy milk.

Go-ahead and try it Mariangeles.
Going by the responses here, one can make it flavourful, and I hope to try it soon.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Mariangeles(op): 8:27pm On Jul 13, 2025
femi4:
What's the ingredients like, never heard of it
Mainly soy beans.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Mariangeles(op): 8:29pm On Jul 13, 2025
iamnotillicit:
That's the twist o babe

I have met more people that LOVE it more than those that don't


That's what motivated me to try, but I blame myself

However I think it depends on the person who prepared it, there's a woman in my present hood that makes it and even respectable people that I know often says she is the best, infact she marinates it in a sweet spicy sauce ( from the look of it)
But from my first experience I don't wanna relieve it
Oya, try and try it again naa.
For the food culture. 🥲
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by ghettochild(m): 8:29pm On Jul 13, 2025
If it's from soy beans...then it's nothing other than tofu
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Haydens: 8:36pm On Jul 13, 2025
I don spend my last 5k to eat awara, very sweet especially with the yaji pepper and onions. 😋😋

Very satisfying and blissful if eaten with freshly hot baked bread. I go chose awara and bread in place of akara or moi moi or beans or coconut or avocado pear or anything eatable with bread.

Though when I firstly ate it in camp I hated it but when I left camp my roommate (sheriff) introduced it to me again and after trying it again I couldn't stop craving for it and I can even borrow money to buy it.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by mayorall(m): 9:04pm On Jul 13, 2025
Mariangeles:
Really? Tell me about it! 😀

So, have you both started making and selling it again?
It's quite tedious to make from scratch.
That was my primary school days. 2000-2005 . My mum had a store at the higher institution in our area. I detest idleness. I'd suggested we make and sell wara soya beske when the students were on strike or holiday. She doesn't like been idle too.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Konquest: 9:28pm On Jul 13, 2025
Mariangeles:
Some food bloggers I follow keep posting it, and hyping the taste.
They call it beske.

Have you ever eaten it?
If you have, how would you describe the taste?
I'd really love to try it, as it looks like something I might like.

Picture credit: Instagram
Tofu snack.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Konquest: 9:33pm On Jul 13, 2025
mayorall:
That was my primary school days. 2000-2005 . My mum had a store at the higher institution in our area. I detest idleness. I'd suggested we make and sell wara soya beske when the students were on strike or holiday. She doesn't like been idle too.
Where did the name "beske" come from? Is the name beske etymologically Nigerian?
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by shilenji(m): 10:53pm On Jul 13, 2025
I have been around the auspice of Ilorin for years and never had the curiosity to want to try it. I do see it around a lot maybe it's time I tried it and get to know myself grin
haybhi1:
It's practically impossible to be a Unilorite and be bereft of this all through your stay there. Lol... you must have had a beske sha ni
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by mayorall(m): 11:10pm On Jul 13, 2025
Konquest:
Where did the name "beske" come from? Is the name beske etymologically Nigerian?
Yes. That's the nickname. It also has a song. It became popular during Obasanjo's first term when fish was expensive.

Warasoya besike, ote mi lorun ju eja lo. Onigun merindinlogun, onigun metadinlogun.

Meaning wara soya beske is more satisfactory to me than fish . Wara with numerous angles. grin
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by DeGLORIOUS: 5:25am On Jul 14, 2025
You can use your lab to prove me wrong. Just because of one person's opinion, you load it on over 2050,000000 million people? You are very funny
ponishah:
Which lab or scientist ran the test to decide it nutritional value?
Nigerians are fond of taking a lot for granted
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Netmuch(m): 6:20am On Jul 14, 2025
They call it star boy in ilorin

haybhi1:
Lol that's the most common snack in Ilorin. It has a characteristic taste.
Full of protein.

Can't say it's delicious though. In fact, I lean towards it having little taste.

But it's a subjective view. Several people like it
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by wowcatty: 6:45am On Jul 14, 2025
‘Beske’ is the Yoruba name for it and it’s made with soy beans.
‘Wara’ is the Yoruba name for milk.
Hausa use a lot of Yoruba words and they might have added the ‘a’ to ‘wara’ for them to be able to pronounce it.
Kelklein:
I think we should call it the original name by those that own and make it.. fried awara. I don't know about beske.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Swaggnum(m): 7:04am On Jul 14, 2025
Disappointedhuhmaybe the one u ate wasn't prepared well🙄
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by TimiofAbuja: 8:55am On Jul 14, 2025
Hardeybohwarley:
I'm guessing you're from Ede from your username.

If that's correct. Bawo ni omo Ede ile Timi.
Oluwatimileyin is my full name, from Modakeke grin
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by NaijaCover(m): 9:21am On Jul 14, 2025
Where are they selling it, because People In Onitsha, doesn't know what is all about.
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Olukayusq(m): 9:45am On Jul 14, 2025
Mariangeles:
Some food bloggers I follow keep posting it, and hyping the taste.
They call it beske.

Have you ever eaten it?
If you have, how would you describe the taste?
I'd really love to try it, as it looks like something I might like.

Picture credit: Instagram
I remember when I was working in Zaria that use to be my lunch but I do combined it with fried potatoes it's really delicious and rich in protein since it's came from soya beans
Re: Beske: Have You Eaten This Before? (Photos) by Konquest: 10:11am On Jul 14, 2025
mayorall:
Yes. That's the nickname. It also has a song. It became popular during Obasanjo's first term when fish was expensive.

Warasoya besike, ote mi lorun ju eja lo. Onigun merindinlogun, onigun metadinlogun.

Meaning wara soya beske is more satisfactory to me than fish .
Wara with numerous angles. grin
@mayorall

Aha! I appreciate the brllliant contexts and historical feedback from you on the "Wara Soya Beske" origins or etymology and I learned something new today.

I've always known that Tofu (made from soybeans) ORIGINALLY has it's roots from China from over 2000 years ago where it is called Doufu and the Japanese call it Tofu but loaned the word from the Chinese word Doufu. BUT from the evidence here, it's called Awara/Wara/Beske in Nigeria by the Yorubas based on the quick online research I just did using the information in your post. The results are right BELOW. "Besike" as a word used in your post OBVIOUSLY has Yoruba origins based off of what you wrote right ABOVE.



1] Instagram · tinugrills
=>https://www.instagram.com/p/CXjOgBwKh9J/%3Fhl%3Den
It's called Tofu in English, Beske in Yoruba (ilorin) What is it called in your language?


2] "In Yoruba, Tofu is commonly known as "Beske" or "Awara". These terms are used interchangeably with "Tofu" in English, particularly in Yoruba-speaking regions of Nigeria."


"Beske" is "fried Tofu" in Nigerian cuisine, specifically among Yoruba speakers in Nigeria. It's made from soy milk curds and is known as "awara" or "wara" in some regions. The frying process is what distinguishes Beske from other forms of tofu.

This video shows how to make Beske from scratch and the frying process:
How To Make Plain WARA BESKE / AWARA / TOFU From Scratch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRjBDgjjPA?si=jooOf3NYRVquStIV
Remremdfoodie • 16 Oct 2023


3] This video demonstrates how to make Beske (Wara-Soya):
How to Make Beske (Wara- Soya)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyD3DzyBoBo?si=TPMpW6iap-7xTK37
9jafoodie • 13 Nov 2020


4] 24 Jun 2021 — Tofu is faux cheese made from SoyMilk curds. Awara or Beske is the local name for Tofu amongst Yoruba speaking people in Nigeria... “Beske oni gun merin” is a fun name we called this as kids. Loosely translates as Fried Tofu with four edges.
Source: https:https://ounjealadun.com/2021/06/24/how-to-make-beske-awara-tofu/


5] Wàrà díndín is the translation of "tofu" into Yoruba. tofu noun grammar A protein-rich food made from curdled soybean milk.
=>https://glosbe.com/en/yo/tofu


6] What is Beske? It loosely translates as Fried Tofu. Tofu is faux cheese made from Soy milk curds. It is called Wara or Beske amongst the Yoruba.
=>https://medium.com/%40joyatilola/beske-nigerian-wara-soya-f310db243218



I appreciate your insights here.

Enjoy the rest of your day.
1 2 3 4 5 Reply

Goruba: Have You Ever Eaten This? (picture)Have You Seen Or Eaten Albino Cucumbers Before? (Photos)Coconut Without Meat: Has Anyone Seen This Type Of Coconut Before? (Photos)234

A Nairalander's Monthly Contribution: Look How My Isusu Paid Me With FoodstuffsHow To Make Homemade Peppersoup Spice And Chicken Peppersoup“if You Are Still Giving Your Children Noodles To School, Stop It” - Lady(vid)