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a white plate topped with sliced bananas and hard boiled eggs on top of other foods

An Our Place Collaboration Kontomire stew is a very popular staple dish in Ghana. It is traditionally made with cocoyam leaves (called kontomire leaves) but can easily be made with frozen or fresh spinach. This stew can be made vegan, but is traditionally seasoned with a variety of dried, canned, fresh, and even cured/fermented fish. […]

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a white plate topped with meat and veggies covered in sauce next to rice

Waakye is a Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans, commonly eaten for breakfast or lunch. However, others eat it for supper. Waakye is commonly sold by roadside vendors. The rice and beans, usually black eyed peas or cow beans, are cooked together, along with red dried sorghum leaves. The sorghum leaves and limestone give the dish its characteristic flavor and a red appearance and the sorghum is taken out before consumption. It is commonly served in banana leaf and accompanied by one or…

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several skewers of chicken and vegetables with dipping sauce

Ghana means “Warrior King,” as they were a big part of what was known as the medieval, West African Ghana Empire, between the 4th to 13th centuries. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in the late 1400s. The area became known as the Gold Coast, for it was rich with gold.

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