The main dishes in Accra include kenkey with hot pepper and fried fish, banku with fried fish and pepper or with okro or groundnut soup, red red or yo-ko-gari, bean stew, fried plantain or tatale, omo tuo (rice balls) served with palm or groundnut soup. A Sunday afternoon special is fried yam with chofi (turkey tails) with hot, fresh pepper sauce, kebabs (meat of liver doused in spicy powder then grilled). Local drinks include asana or maize beer, palm wine, coconut juice and akpeteshie or palm wine. Ashanti Region It is said that if an Ashanti man does not eat fufu, then he has not eaten that day. Fufu with light soup and smoked fish or groundnut soup, and spicy kebabs sold by the roadside as well as banku and grilled tilapia are all staples of the Ashanti diet. Western Region The main dishes are akyeke (cassava-based, similar to couscous) served with avocado, fufu and light soup with mushroom or snails. Popular drinks are coconut juice, palm wine and akpeteshie. Central Region The main dishes include fante dorkunu (kenkey with fish and gravy), fufu and palmnut soup, jollof rice, fante fante (palm oil stew with small fresh fish) and tatale (friend plantain cakes), ampesi and oto (mashed yam). Volta Region The regional dishes include akple with okro soup, fufe with palmnut soup, abolo with shrimps and one man thousand, banku with okro stew or pepper, red red and fried plantain. Volta tilapia is a speciality and can be found both by the roadside and in the riverside hotels along the Volta.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:15:49 +0000
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