Ghanaian cuisine

Ghanaian cooking is built on starchy staples — fufu, banku, kenkey — and the fiery soups that go with them.

The staple is eaten with the hand, a piece pinched off and dipped into soup. It is not chewed but swallowed whole, which is part of the technique.

Fermentation supplies the sourness the flavours rest on: banku, kenkey and gari all pass through it.

2 dishes

  • Waakye

    Rice and black-eyed beans cooked with sorghum leaves, which turn it deep red.

    100 min · Easy · Main course

  • Banku with tilapia

    Fermented maize and cassava dough worked smooth, with grilled fish and a hot pepper sauce.

    75 min · Medium · Main course