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Main Dishes

Waakyericeandbeans

Waakye is a dish cooked with white rice and black-eyed peas. You have to boil the rice with sorghum leaf sheaths to give the rice it's purple color. This rice is common to eat at Ghanaian parties and weddings. Waakye also originated from the Hausa tribe in Northern Ghana. The rice is eaten with stew to give it taste along with fish, spaghetti, and avocado

To make the rice, you need:

  1. White rice
  2. Black eyes Peas
  3. Sorghum leaf sheaths

Fried Yamsfriedyams

Fried yams are basically fried yams and is eaten with turkey tails or tilapia. A pepper sauce is also eaten with it.

To make the meal, all you need are:

  1. African Yams
  2. Tilapia
  3. Oil
  4. Pepper sauce

"Red Red"

plantainandbeans

Red Red is a meal made of a bean stew thats often eaten with fried plantains. The bean stew is made with black-eyed beans, onions, peppers, tomatoes and fish. Rice and avocado go with the dish as well.

To make the stew, you need:

  1. Black-eyed beans
  2. Mackerel
  3. Tomatoes
  4. Onions
  5. Peppers
  6. Plantains