What’s on the menu

All the vocabulary you need for eating in Accra

The basics

Aduane Food

Akawadu Banana

Amadaa Fried plantain

Ampesi Plantain and yam

Banku Corndough

Bodie Plantain

Borodo/Panu Bread

Enam Meat

Gari Cassava dried or grated

Momone Sun-dried fish

Nsuomnam Fish

Ode Yam

Breakfast & snacks

Boflot Doughnut

Ekwei bemi Boiled sweet corn kernels

Koko Corn or millet porridge with milk or sugar

Nuhuu Cocoyam porridge

Rice water Rice pudding

Dishes

Abenkwain Palm nut soup

Fufu Pounded yam, cassava or plantain

Gari foto A cassava and egg dish mixed with other ingredients

Groundnut soup Spicy stew with meat or fish

Jollof rice Spicy rice with meat or chicken

Kaaklo Deep-fried plantain  dough

Kelewele Spicy fried plantain

Kenkey Steamed fermented cornflour balls

Kokonte Cassava dish

Kontomire Cocoyam leaves

Kyinkyinga Beef kebab with vegetable sauce

Omo tuo Mashed rice balls with stew or soup

Palava sauce Spinach or leaf sauce

Red red Spicy bean stew

Shito Hot pepper sauce,
sometimes with prawn or fish

Suya Spicy kebab

Tatale Pounded and fried  plantain

Waakye Rice and red beans, often with meat, fish and spicy sauce