Ghana
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Waakye
Ghana's beloved one-pot: rice and beans cooked together with millet stalks or sorghum leaves that tint it burgundy, served with shito black chile sauce, spaghetti, gari and stew. Ingredients: rice, black-eyed beans, drie…
Groundnut Stew (Nkate Nkwan)
The peanut stew of the forest zone: chicken or beef simmered in a rich groundnut (peanut) paste sauce with tomatoes and okra, ladled over fufu or rice balls. Ingredients: peanuts (roasted, ground), chicken, tomatoes, oni…
Red Red
Black-eyed peas in red palm oil: Ghana's Friday favourite — beans stewed with ripe plantains fried golden, the red-red named for palm oil and palm-red plantain. Ingredients: black-eyed peas, red palm oil (zomi), onions,…
Jollof Rice (Ghanaian)
Ghana's jollof manifesto: rice cooked in tomato stew with a ginger-garlic-anise depth, served with chicken and shito — the other capital of the great jollof debate. Ingredients: jasmine or long-grain rice, tomatoes, pepp…
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