Category: Ghana
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 […]
Epitse (Plantain baked in leaves)
Epitse; mashed over-ripe plantains, baked in leaves. Plantains, there is always a use for plantains at any stage around this place. From the green plantain to the yellow plantain, soft with black spots and fully black and soft, there is always something to make out […]
Red red recipe (beans stew with fried plantains)
Ghanaian classic red red recipe (fried plantain with beans stew) My parents were in Upper West Region last month and guess what they brought home. Beans, lots of beans (these beans are the best I have ever had), smoked guinea fowl, shea butter, cow feet, […]
