Cooking as in Ghana - five traditional dishes
Beans with baked plantains
Rinse the beans in a colander and soak in 1 liter of cold water for 1 hour. Drain off the water. Put the beans in plenty of boiling salted water and cook for about 20 minutes. Drain the beans and drain. Dissolve the stock cubes in 1/2 liter of boiling water. Peel onions, dice ... read whole recipe
Mixed salad with green papaya and sardines
Cook the eggs in 10 minutes, peel and cut in half. Clean the iceberg lettuce, rinse, shake dry and cut into bite-sized pieces. Peel the papaya, cut in half, remove the seeds and cut the fruit halves into slices. Rinse the tomatoes and quarter them, cutting out the stem approach ... read the whole recipe
Poultry or beef with tomato rice
Add the meat and 2 teaspoons of salt in 400 ml of water, bring to the boil and cook for 15 minutes. Drain the meat, collecting the meat. Remove 4 onions and dice roughly. The peppers are quartered. Puree onions and chillies in the Blitzhacker. Peel off the remaining onions, slice ... read whole recipe
Spinach with tomatoes and boiled yam
Clean the spinach, removing the thick leaf ribs. Rinse the leaves and cut into strips. Put in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Drain the spinach, drain well and finely chop or grind with a large mortar. Rinse the tomatoes, quarter, corer and dice the pulp ... read whole recipe
Battered pastry balls with nutmeg
Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add sugar, vanilla sugar, soft fat, milk, condensed milk, eggs and nutmeg and mix everything to a smooth dough. Let the dough rest for about 30 minutes. Heat the frying oil (it has the right temperature when small bubbles form on a wooden spoon dipped in the hot oil) ... Read the whole recipe
Exotic ingredients
Yam: starchy white, yellow and sweet tubers vine-like climbing plants. There's a well-stocked fruit and vegetable shop. Alternative: potatoes, sweet potatoes. Bananas: Fruits of a tropical bush. They are similar to bananas, but are harder. Plantains are used in green, half-ripe or fully mature. There's a well-stocked fruit and vegetable shop. Alternative: bananas. Palm oil: strong yellow-orange oil from the palm-nut tree fruit. When heated, it gets lighter. Gives only in the exotic food trade. Alternative: peanut oil with a little tomato paste. Black Eyed Peas: small white beans with black dot. There's a well-stocked fruit and vegetable trade. Alternative: white or brown beans. Ghana spinach: large-leaved leafy vegetables. Is it? S only in the afro shop. Alternative: leaf spinach.
