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.

KenkeyWhen 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

A yam is a vegetable not dissimilar to a

potato.

The yam is fried in palm oil.

Black eyed beansThe 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.

Beans cooked in a red pepper

paste.

Gari

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?

The fish will be eaten with Akple (maize)

Every single part of the fish is used – there is no waste!

Everyone eats fish regularly.

Fish in sauce with akple

Fish and cereals

Groundnut soup with fish

Soft cereals

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

Avocado

Fried Plantain

Fried Yam

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