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