Food has always been one major key factor when one decides to learn new culture....meaning the way to a persons heart is through his stomach.
And today i will like to introduce you to the favorite and common food, yet the most delicious and traditional DISH in West Africa but more commonly Ghana and Nigeria
This is a typical well balance fufu meal ready for consumption.
In Ghana the king of food fufu has always been prepared strictly under hygienic condition and to that modernization has its role in the making of fufu. Many Ghanaian's will tell you that preparing fufu is a difficult task because of the whole process one has to go through, but today fufu which is made from cocoyam, cassava and plantain can now be found in the shopping malls and retail market centers in a powdered form.
STEPS in preparing
Pour 2 handfull of Neat fufu powder into a clean dry pot and mix properly with water into a thick paste. Ensure to stir properly to prevent lumps in fufu
Put on medium heat and stir. As it gets thicker, begin to knead into a dough.
When fufu formed a neat dough, and doesn’t taste floury, fufu is ready. If it still taste raw of floury cover and allow to cook for another 15mins kneading every 5mins to prevent the bottom from burning. When done, remove from heat.
A typical finished fufu made from plantain
A typical finished fufu made from Cassava
Fufu becomes the king of meal when a soup is added. There are variety of soup that can be use ......Light soup( pepper and tomato ), Okro soup, Groundnut soup, Palm nut soup, etc.
I will talk about how Light soup is done.
STEPS
Wash tomatoes, pepper and onions. Remove stem of pepper and remove head of onions.
Put whole tomatoes, pepper and onions into a clean pot and add 1 cup of water and bring to boil. In the meantime, steam meat.
Remove whole tomatoes, pepper and onions and blend. Don’t discard the boiled water
Pour back blended tomatoes into the boiled water, cook for 15 mins then pour the meat stock, add maggi, salt and bring to boil for about 5 mins. Add meat and boil for another 10 mins.
Optional step: Sieve the soup to get the clear light look of the soup
Light soup is ready.
To serve Ghanaian style, mould fufu into a ball and place in the center of a deep wide bowl. Pour soup with lots of meat over the fufu.
Visit Ghana today and enjoy free meal of fufu from me.
Enjoy like these friends
how beautiful the food looks, a typical palm nut soup
Ending my post i will like to thank you all for reading, please thumb up if u want to see more post on different dish from Africa as this is my first official post. stay bless