classic Ghanaian recipes, others using readily available ingredients and adventures

classic Ghanaian recipes, others using readily available ingredients and adventures

Category: Sides

Homemade waakye

Homemade waakye

Waakye-Rice and beans cooked with dried millet stalk leaves. Waakye should be made Ghana’s national dish. I am yet to come across anyone who does not like waakye. I truly do. Surprisingly, waakye is just a simple side dish of rice and beans cooked with […]

Coconut jollof

Coconut jollof

Rich tasting jollof cooked with light coconut milk instead of water. Coconut jollof will be your new favourite jollof. Coconut milk does wonders! I had seen coconut jollof across the web but I had never thought of trying it till one faithful afternoon when I […]

Black-eyed peas and rice (one pot)

Black-eyed peas and rice (one pot)

I love rice infused dishes. It is like eating a billion grain of infused flavours. Jollof is a classical example of billion grains of infused flavours, this gizzard rice is also a great example. I absolutely have no idea what I am saying but I […]