08/05/2021
Waakye (/ˈwɑːtʃeɪ/ WAH-chay) is a Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans, commonly eaten for breakfast or lunch. However, others eat it for supper. The rice and beans, usually black eyed peas, are cooked together, along with red dried sorghum leaf sheaths or stalks and limestone.
The sorghum leaves and limestone give the dish its characteristic flavor and a red appearance and the sorghum is taken out before consumption.
The word waakye is from the Hausa language and means beans. It is the contracted form of the full name shinkafa da wake which means rice and beans.
Waakye is commonly sold by roadside vendors. It is believed that the Hausa and the Northern ethnic groups of Ghana are the best cooks of waakye. It is then commonly wrapped in banana leaf and accompanied by one or more of Wele stew, boiled chicken eggs, garri, sh*to, vegetable salad of cabbage, onions and tomatoes, spaghetti (which is called talia in Ghana) or fried plantain.
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