Make delicious waakye at Home using this recipe

Waakye is a beloved Ghanaian dish made from rice and beans cooked together. Its typical reddish-brown color comes from the addition of sorghum leaves or millet stalks, giving it a unique taste and appearance. Waakye is often enjoyed as a heavy breakfast or lunch, and is typically served with an array of accompaniments like fried plantains, spaghetti, boiled eggs, wele, avocado, and spicy shito sauce and stew. This dish holds a special place in Ghanaian culture, often found at roadside stalls and family gatherings. Its simplicity, nutrition, and rich flavors make it a favorite across West Africa. In this recipe, you will be shown how to make authentic waakye at home to achieve that classic taste and color. Let’s get cooking!

INGREDIENTS

1 and 1/2 cups of beans

2 cups of rice

Sorghum leaves (waakye leaves)

Water

Salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

Start by soaking your sorghum leaves in water and leaving them to sit overnight

To cook your beans, add enough water to a saucepan with your beans and boil on high heat.

When your beans are halfway cooked, remove the soaked sorghum leaves, set aside the water, and put the leaves on top of the beans, covering to cook until they turn soft.

Take out the sorghum leaves and follow in with your washed rice and the juice from the sorghum leaves.

Add salt to taste, stir thoroughly, and cover to cook until everything is soft and properly cooked.

Your waakye is cooked and ready to serve with accompaniments like gari, wele, salad, stew, shito and egg.

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