Colossium Magazine September Issue_2019 | Page 46

Waakye Tips on How To Prepare Ghana’s 2nd Favourite Food W aakye – whether as breakfast, lunch or dinner, this food is almost Ghana’s favourite after Jollof. Waakye is a Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans. It is cooked using many of the methods without adding additional spices and herbs. The rice is cooked with an indigenous leaf (sorghum leaf sheaths) and black eyed peas or kidney beans. A typical waakye meal usually consists of the cooked rice and beans, stew, some spaghetti and moist gari – and oh, shito. See the next page for tips FOOD