Okele, also known as "swallows" in pidgin Nigeria English, is a Yoruba word for various starchy foods eaten with soups.[1] Ingredients used to make okele include yam, fermented cassava, cassava granules with hot water, plantain, wheat flour, yam flour and cocoyam.[2] Okele in Yoruba cuisine includes iyan (pounded yam), eba, fufu, amala, lafun, semo and pupuru.[3] [4]