Throughout this section we explore the delights
of Ghanaian cuisine, and offer a number of recipes for you to
try.
Soups are the primary component in Ghanaian cuisine and are
eaten with fufu (either pounded plaintain and cassava or yam),
kokonte (cassava meal cooked into a paste), banku (fermented
corn dough), boiled yam, rice, bread, plantain, or cassava.
The most common soups are light soup, palmnut soup, and groundnut
(peanut) soup.
Other Ghanaian favorites include gari foto (eggs, onions, dried
shrimp, tomatoes and gari), agushie (squash seed sauce, tomatoes
and onions), omo tuo (mashed rice balls with groundnut soup),
jollof rice, red-red (fried plantain and bean sauce), kenkey
(boiled fermented corn dough) and fish, kelewele (deep fried
and heavily spiced plantain) and shito (hot pepper sauce).
In general, soups and sauces are prepared with either fish,
goat, mutton or chicken.
The Ghanaian version of 'fast food' can be found at the 'chop
bars'.
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