Nutrition
Ademe Soup
• Ademe soup
Ademe soup is a green leafy soup made with Ademe leaves. It can be served with hot banku, rice and ewopkle.
Ingredients
• ½ cup of palm oil
• One piece of fermented fish(momoni)
• One medium sized onion
• Three medium sized tomatoes (in puree form)
• Six peppers
• One tablespoon of fish powder
• 100 grammes of cow hide (wele)
• 200 grammes of crabs
• 150 grammes of smoked tuna
• One kilogramme jute leaves, ayoyo/ademe/ewedu leaves
• ½ tablespoonful of saltpetre
• 1⅓ tablespoonful of salt
Preparation
-Heat palm oil in a saucepan over
medium heat, add fermented fish, sliced onion and stir.
Add the tomato puree, blended scotch bonnet pepper, stir and let it simmer for eight minutes.
-Add salt, fish powder, stir and let it simmer for a minute before adding the cow hide, crabs, stir and let it cook for 10 minutes.
-Add smoked tuna, stir and leave to simmer on low heat for five minutes.
-Pour the jute leaves into a saucepan, add water, saltpetre, stir and let it cook for seven minutes.
-Pour the cooked leaves into the stew, adjust the salt, stir and let it simmer for five minutes on low heat.
-Ademe soup ready to serve.
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Nutrition
Health benefits of Star Apple (Alansa)
Known as Alansa in Ghana, the botanical name for the African Star apple is Chrysophyllum albidum.
In recent times, the demand for African star apple is very high because of sweet taste and its benefits.
-It prevents Anemia
-Maintains weight loss
-Anti oxidants rich in vitamin C
-It prevents diabetes
Nutrition
Fufu and Light Soup
Fufu and light soup is a traditional Ghanaian dish; it is delicious food that you won’t want to miss out on when it comes to Ghanaian cuisine.
Light soup is tomato based. Fish, goat, lamb, chicken, beef, or pork can all be used to make this light soup.
Basically, Fufu in Ghana is derived by combining cassava and plantain.
Ingredients
Fresh tomatoes
Beef/Goat meat/ Chicken/ Lamb meat
Fresh fish (tilapia or catfish)
Tomato paste
Chili peppers
2 large onions
3 spoonful of salt
Seasoning
3 teaspoonful of ginger and
garlic
4 fingers of okro
Fufu Ingredients
Fresh cassava
Unripe plantain
How to make Ghana Light Soup
-First of all clean your fish, remove the gills and the innards then rinse in clean water and set aside. Thereafter, wash the meat and equally keep it aside.
-Secondly, blend your ginger, garlic, onion, seasoning cube, salt, and spices, scoop some quantity into the fish and marinate the fish, cover and set aside.
-In a pot containing the meat pour the remaining blended garlic and ginger mixture, add the tomato paste, salt, bay leaf, with more water, cover and cook for about 10 minutes.
-Thirdly, wash your tomatoes, onions, and pepper and remove the stem of pepper, scrap off the onion head.
-Place fresh tomatoes, onions, pepper into a clean pot and pour 1 cup of water into the pot and bring to boil.
-Next is to remove the fresh tomatoes, pepper, and onions from heat and blend. Ensure you don’t discard the boiled water from the tomatoes rather use it to blend the tomatoes; or pour into the meat, add more water.
Finally, bring soup to a simmer over low heat for like 15 minutes then add the fresh fish; clean your okra/ okro and add into the cooking pot, cover and cook to doneness.
Optional: Sieve the soup if you like to get the clear light look of the soup else skip the process.
Light soup is ready.
How to make Ghana Fufu
On the same note, cassava flour can be used in place of fresh cassava tubers.
First of all, peel the skin of your cassava tuber and plantains then boil for about 25-30 minutes to tender.
Secondly, using a mortar and pestle which is the major instrument for local pounding, or use a Yam pounder machine to pound it.
Start with the plantain, thereafter add the cassava, sprinkle some water as you pound for easy pounding until a smooth paste is achieved; Your smooth fufu is ready.
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