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Ghanaian food: Boiled Yam

by Pieter11

Yam is the mostle eaten vegetable in Ghana. It looks like a big, brown carrot and it tastes just like a potato. Everywhere you come in the country you will see the Yams: being sold from some women head, carried as bagage in a Tro-Tro, or in big piles on some market. There are several ways to prepare the Yam, but you will see the boiled version the most. Boiled Yam tastes just like boiled potato, but the structure is a little bit rougher. It is easy to prepare: just peel the Yam, cut it into pieces and boil it. The sauce it is served with most of the times (not a soup this time!) is Palava-sauce. This sauce is made of the leaves of the Kontomire plant, a sort of spinach. They are boiled in a lot of red oil, together with some chilli pepper and fish to give it its unique taste. It tastes like spinach, but just different, and it goes perfectly with the boiled yam. This was my favorite food...

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Ghanaian food: Riceballs

by Pieter11

One of the meals that wás pretty OK to eat in Ghana, were the riceballs that are made a lot. Again, it looks the same as all the other balls that are served here, but these ones are made of rice. The rice is cooked too long, until it gets all sticky and soft, and than it is made into balls that are the size of a tennisball. Depending on how long it is cooked, you can still see the structure of the rice: I liked it the best when you could still see that.Riceballs are (of course) also served with a soup. Groundnut-soup is the most popular. It is made of nuts of the oil-palm, and it tastes a lot like peanuts. Most of the times a boiled eggs or a small piece of meats or fish is added too. In the north this often is dried fish, because fresh fish is hardly seen here, and that doesn't taste very nice.

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Ghanaian food: Banku

by Pieter11

Another meal that looks a lot like Fufu, is Banku. Banku however, tastes even worse than Fufu and it has a base of maize flour. This flour also is made by the Ghanaian ladies with the wooden stick and bowl. The maize is mashed and once in a while the the bowl is emptied above another bowl so the wind can blow away the skins of the maize.Once the flour is ready, it is boiled until a sticky substance remains. Together with some salt this is also served in a bowl of soup or stew. A stew that is often served with Banku, is Okro Stew. This is made of the vegetable Okro (or Lady's Finger) and is can be very snotty.In general, this combination is the worst thing I've eaten in Ghana. The Banku is a bit sour, and the Okro Stew is tasteless and snotty. Even Fufu is much better!

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Ghanaian food: Made at home

by Pieter11

The Ghanaian cuisine is definitely not one of the greatest in the world. Here in Africa, it is more important to get your stomach filled than to have a great culinary experience. The most popular dishes that are made at home are the local dishes like Fufu, Banku, Red Red or Riceballs.A typical Ghanaian kitchen doesn't have a lot of luxury: a cooker that works on gas, or even wood, a few pans or big cooking pots and a lot of plastic bowls, cups and plates.

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Ghanaian food: Fufu

by Pieter11

One of the most popular dishes in Ghana, and large parts of Africa in general, is Fufu. Fufu is very heavy food that looks and feels like a sticky dough, and that normally served in a bowl of soup.The preparing of Fufu is something that really is a part of the Ghanaian street scene. Everywhere you see women mashing the ingredients with a long wooden stick in a big bowl that is also made of wood. These ingredients in Ghana normally are boiled yam (a big kind of potato) and sometimes plantain (a banana-looking vegetable). These vegetables are boiled and then mashed until they are a powder. Then they are made into balls by using water. In other parts of Africa they also use cassava for the Fufu.A soup that is often served with Fufu is groundnut-soup that can be very spicy sometimes. Sometimes a boiled egg or a small fish is added to the soup. Fufu has to be eaten with the right hand: just...

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Various: Cider

by grets

Living in Somerset as we do (famed for its apple orchards and great cider), David is a huge fan of ciders worldwide. You can imagine his delight when he discovered the supermarket across the road from our hotel in Accra stocked, not just one, but three different ciders – two imported from South Africa, and one from Canada. The Savanna Dry is his favourite (he remembers it well from our visit to South Africa in 1999).

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Various: Wine and Coke

by grets

A weird combination? You bet! I must admit, it is not something I would have thought of having together: red wine and Cola, but when I saw it in the supermarket, I just had to try it. It is not actually as bad as it sounds, but not good enough to actually make a commercial drink out of it either. It reminds me a little of those people who drink lemonade with their red wine. We also saw people order a bottle of beer and a bottle of Coke in a bar and mix the two together. I never did try that though. The wine available locally was mostly imported from South Africa – and very nice it was too. See below for another South African import.

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Any chop bar in Ghana: Banku Okro and Red-Red

by IoannaE

Two dishes at opposite ends of tourist-friendliness: Banku Okro is cornmeal eaten by hand with a slimy okra-based stew that includes cocoyam leaves and fish. Okra lovers will love it but it's definitely not for those who hate mucilaginous textures. And whether you ordered fish with it or not, it will have been cooked with fish so watch out for bones! Red-red, on the other hand, is easy: fried plantain with spicy black-eyed peas cooked in palm oil. One of the few Ghanaian dishes to be served with a knife and fork! Very good and very filling.

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everywhere: Fantastic fresh fruit - and safe to eat

by IoannaE

Fresh fruit is a real treat in Ghana. The mangoes are excellent - buy them from any stall and cut them up yourself. Papaya, banana and peeled whole oranges are also widely available. Best of all though is the pineapple. A street vendor will cut one up for you without touching it and hand it to you inside a plastic bag with a toothpick, so you can eat it on the street - and amuse everyone with your loud 'mmmmmmms' and 'aaaahs'! A single mango should set you back about 5000 cedis. As I was buying them from a stall outside my hotel, at first I thought these were tourist prices, but they're not- that's how much the locals pay, too.

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Chop bars: Ghanaian food, spicy and hearty

by IoannaE

Ghanaian food is very tasty. It is based on starches (pounded cassava, yam or plaintain, or boiled cornmeal or pounded rice) with a sauce or soup. The soup/sauce typically incorporates both meat and fish, of which the meat may be goat (very tasty) or offal and the fish is usually fried first and then put into the soup. Other ingredients are hot peppers, onions and tomato. The cooking medium is palm oil, thanks to which everything takes a red hue. You eat with your hands from a communal plate. For this reason all Ghanaian homes and restaurants provide not only a washbasin with water but a bar of soap or bottle of liquid soap as well.

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Q:  I'm planning my trip for Ghana for next year and I'm want to bring some food items such as can foods. Is it ok, and if so is there... 

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A: Why do you want to carry can goods? You can go to a number of grocery stores in Accra. Although I have carried some specialty items, the Accra airport does not usually... 

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