Nutrition
Akple
Akple
Akple is a Ghanaian dish made from corn flour. It is often served with pepper or stew soup made with various ingredients such as red oil, tomatoes, onions, and spices. Akple is a filling and nutritious meal that is popular in the Volta region of Ghana.
Ingredients
1 cup of corn dough
Water
Salt to taste
Method
-Mix a small portion of corn and add it to boiling water on fire to form porridge
-Add a little salt and get a wooden spoon or stick to stir well.
Scoop a portion of the porridge and set aside
– Add corn flour to remainder of porridge on fire.
– Stir to desired texture and add the porridge earlier scooped
-When the mixture becomes fairly solid, take a calabash (or bowl), dip it in water and put a spoonful of the dough into the calabash, shaking it vigorously and rolling the dough inside into an oval shape.
Serve with hot pepper sauce and fish or tomato stew or okro/okra soup or stew.
Nutrition
Palm nut soup
Palm nut soup is a Ghanaian dish that can be served with so many foods. It has a rich base of palm nuts combined with tomatoes and various vegetables that makes it very nutritious.
Preparation
Ingredients
– 1 kilogramme of palm nut
– Half kilogramme of beef
-One kilogramme of goat meat
-Three large salmon
-One full tuna
– A handful of turkey berries
-Two large onions
-4 large tomatoes
-3 large garden eggs
– One tin of mackerel
-Ten large peppers
– One large ginger
-2 cloves of garlic
– Four fingers of okro
– Salt to taste
Instructions
-Wash, cook palm nut, turkey berries, and pepper and add salt to it.
-Grind palm nut, turkey berries and pepper with mortar and pestle or mini food processor.
-Wash goat meat, beef, Tuna, salt and put on fire.
– Blend onion, garlic, ginger and tomatoes and pour on the goat meat.
– Add smoked tuna and salmon and okro to the soup.
-Use a spoon or ladle to skim off the surface oil.
-Garnish the soup with the okro or garden eggs as desired.
-Serve with fufu, banku or Omo tuo.
Nutrition
Cucumber and apple smoothie
Ingredients
-Two medium sized cucumber
-Three apples
-Four tablespoonful of honey
-Crushed ice
-Two cups of yoghurt
-One tablespoonful of blended ginger
– One tablespoonful of celery and mint
Preparation
-Wash and slice cucumber, apple into smaller sizes
-Blend until it is smooth
-Add honey and a little water to it
-Add crushed ice and yoghurt
-Blend it till you achieve your desired texture
– Then serve
