Food in Ghana Common foods School food Daily

Food in Ghana • Common foods • School food

Daily Bread Here is the bread dough that is sold on the street School children and workers will eat this in the daytime

Here is the baked bread. . . Ready to be sold

Preparing Akple – maize dough finely ground and boiled in water

Akple and Okro soup Akple – Here’s the dough after it has been baked Okro Soup – A soup made from finely chopped and ground red peppers, mixed with palm oil, okra and water. A smoked fish will be cooked in this soup.

Preparing the okra for the soup Here are the vegetables, the chopped red pepper and the fish ready to be made into soup.

How to eat Akple and Okro soup.

Kenkey When the Akple is covered with corn husk, and is steamed, a Kenkey is prepared

Preparing the Kenkey

Eating kenkey with your hands

Kenkey is eaten with fish cooked in red pepper sauce and hot spices.

Yam being fried The yam is fried in palm oil. A yam is a vegetable not dissimilar to a potato.

Black eyed beans The beans will be soaked then boiled and eaten with rice and palm oil. Beans with Gari – what is Gari?

Common cereal - cassava These grains of corn will be dried to make Gari.

Baked Cassava - Fufu is a soft dough eaten with meat or fish

A popular common meal. Gari Beans cooked in a red pepper paste. Smoked Mackerel cooked in a spicy tomato sauce.

A quick breakfast An egg and tomato mixture

Fish - first smoked then cooked – Why do people smoke fish? Why do the villagers eat so many fish?

Every single part of the fish is used – there is no waste! The fish will be eaten with Akple (maize) Everyone eats fish regularly.

Fish in sauce with akple

Fish and cereals Soft cereals Groundnut soup with fish

Different kinds of fish Do you recognize some of these fish?

Storing the fish Fish, catch, salt or smoke.

Fruit Coconuts – you can drink the milk. These coconuts have fallen off the trees. . And eat the flesh inside

Common fruits

Snacks we have bought Tomato sauce Tomato and red onion Fried Yam Avocado Fried Plantain Salt

Bissap juice Leaves from the Hibiscus flower are used to prepare this juice The juice from the leaves are mixed with water and sugar

Rice and water Quite often the schoolchildren will drink rice and water as a quick snack

Maize and water - Koko The schoolchildren will drink this at playtime.

Food available at school

Buying or bringing food

Preparing oranges for the purpose of eating

The preparation kitchen