Waakye, the nutritious meal in Ghana

Waakye is an African meal well known in Nigeria, Benin Republic and Ghana. It is most popular in northern Ghana. It is a Ghanaian rice and beans infusedly cooked with millet leaves. It has waakye sauce with shito, the black chilli sauce. Today, we will be looking at the waakye sauce.

Ingredients

2 cups of black-eye beans, 2 cups of rice, millet stock, 4 spoons of oil, and salt.

Preparation

If you want to prepare it for lunch, soak it for 3-5 hours in the morning. For breakfast, soak overnight.

Add 2 cups of water into the pot and bring the soaked beans to boil for 15 minutes. Add washed millet stock into the boiling beans.

Remove millet stock before adding rice.

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Add the washed rice to the boiling beans and add more water. Allow the contents to boil for 30 minutes.

Add water to achieve the desired level of tenderness and salt for taste. Add blended tomatoes, curry, Maggi cubes, chili pepper and a little vegetable oil or palm oil, and allow them to boil until the desired dark brown color is reached. It could be served with boil egg, plantain or salad.

aakye sauce  or (shito)

A fragrant, hot pepper sauce available at every table in Ghana. It is made of dried seafood: fish and shrimps, ground and fried in lots of oil with ground dried red chilli peppers and other seasoning. It is an accompaniment to a variety of dishes.

Stew Ingredients

Oil, onion, grain of paradise, ginger, chili pepper, beef, vegetable oil and tomato puree.

Stew Preparation

Add oil into saucepan and place the pan on a medium heat.

Blend the onion, grains of paradise, ginger and chilies into a paste and then add steamed beef with stock.

• Add all spices and taste for salt.
• Allow contents to boil for about 10 minutes.

Add the onion blend to the oil and fry till the volume reduces by half.

Add the blended tomato puree and cook till it turns into a paste.

Your Waakye is ready to eat.