Serving temperature mostly hot Main ingredients Bean, Rice, Leaf | Place of origin Ghana | |
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Similar Rice, Shito, Banku, Kelewele, Kenkey | ||
How to make the best ghana waakye aka rice beans
Waakye is a Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans. This side dish is strikingly similar to the West Indian version, 'rice and peas'. Cooked using many of the same methods minus additional spices and herbs in the West Indian version. The rice is cooked with an indigenous leaf and black eyed or kidney beans. It is commonly prepared in the home, but is also sold by roadside vendors. It is a very popular dish in Ghana
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- How to make the best ghana waakye aka rice beans
- How to prepare waakye with bicarbonate of soda
- References
Waakye is mostly eaten for breakfast or lunch. A typical waakye meal usually consists of the cooked rice and beans, stew, some spaghetti and moist gari (both of which are sometimes mixed with oil from the stew), boiled eggs, stewed meat or stewed/fried fish, stewed wele (cooked-down cowhide) and vegetable salad (which may include cabbage, onions and tomatoes). It may also be eaten with Kelewele (fried plantain). It is thought to have originated from the northern parts of Ghana.