It is just a simple side dish of rice and beans cooked with dried millet stalk leaves.
ADVERTISEMENT
DIY Recipes: How to make the perfect Ghanaian Waakye
Waakye is actually an abbreviated form of the full name ‘shinkafa da wake’ (Hausa) which means “rice and beans”.
Waakye
Recommended articles
Ingredients
1 cup long-grain rice
2 (14 oz) cans red beans (or black-eyed peas)
ADVERTISEMENT
A dozen leaves of dried millet (waakye)
Salt
Method
Rinse the beans and soak it overnight with the millet stalk leaves with over a litre of water. The leaves will omit its colour, the water will change to a deeper wine colour and the beans will take up that colour.
Put the soaked beans together with the water and millet stalk leaves into a saucepan. Bring to boil and cook till tender.
ADVERTISEMENT
Add the washed rice, salt and some water if needed. Stir and cover tightly. When the rice boils over, reduce the heat and simmer till the water is absorbed and the rice is cooked through.
Rest for about three to five minutes, remove millet stalk leaves and fluff with a fork.
Serve as a side dish with Ghanaian style beef stew or any stew of choice.
JOIN OUR PULSE COMMUNITY!
ADVERTISEMENT
Eyewitness? Submit your stories now via social or:
Email: eyewitness@pulse.com.gh
Recommended articles
Do you feel dizzy standing up suddenly? 7 reasons why
5 signs a man might not have been sexually active in a while
Natural ways to reduce gray hair without dyeing it
3 things you should know before you tattoo your partner's name
When buying kosua ne meko, here are 4 things you shouldn't do
Here’s why patients treated by female doctors have a better chance of recovery
What happened to the bodies from the Titanic — the poor still suffered
G-string: Why it was invented and how it got its name
