₦airaland Forum

Rozcol:
The owner of the house na

How old are you?

servicom101:
Ghana..


Want to finally relocate

What do you do now? What would you be doing in Ghana?

servicom101:
Bro, we gats talk

About what?

Obeydrules:
I’m not angry and will never be.
Answer: Herbalist

Thank you. Im grateful. There's a lot of confusion with the traditional African religion/herbalist, "white" Jesus, PanAfricanism, African chieftaincy , idol worshipping, African American consciousness etc but I won't go there

Obeydrules:
Eeh nah

Please don't get angry o? So you worship the devil? Are you a herbalist? Or a PanAfricanist? Or a chief or have connections with chieftaincy stuff? Are your parents idol worshippers/ is it a family thing, or you opted to serve idols on your own?

solasoulmusic:
I would garnish with mint leaves and cut strawberry

all that green guacamole doesn't look gross to you but this green Ghanaian dish does eh?

BRATISLAVA:
@bolded: It's "nairaland", not "Nigerians only forum".

I don't have a mortar and pestle.

Interesting to know more about the earthenware. You mentioned you eat out of them, too. Like you guys can decide to eat out of them, like plates? Are they that portable? Do you believe it tastes better from the earthenware? Is there a difference between asanka and aportoryuwa? Do they originate from a particular tribe?

This salting and fermenting sounds like something Chinese would do. I think the closest thing to that in Nigeria is stock fish, a war time ration that stuck (pun intended). Guess koobi will be strong pretty much like stock fish.

Yes we eat from them too. They come in various sizes. But only certain dishes are best served in them. Like one pot dish Ghana fufu, where the soup is poured on the fufu in the earthenware bowl. Kokonte, what you call amala can also be served in this bowl because the soup is poured on the food. Where raw pepper, tomatoes and onions are ground in the bowl to eat a meal, it can be eaten directly from the bowl.

This food the OP served, ampesie (a paysay) can also be eaten from this bowl. The clay pots that our forefathers stored water in, give a very distinctive "flavour" to water, and also cools it. The Asanka too does same, especially if food is kept in them longer. Foods served in our "chop bars"/local restaurants where these bowls are commonly used have a distinctive flavour.

The Akans (largest ethnic group in Ghana) call it Asanka or Aportoryuwa. Aportoryuwa means grinding bowl. Other ethnic groups have names for them. They're commonly manufactured in the clay rich areas in southern Ghana. Our Northerners who have the Hausa, Fulani, Muslims and a drier climate grind stuff with mortar and pestle. I don't really know if the Asanka is ubiquitous there like it's in Southern Ghana.

The salted fermented fish called momoni is STRONGER than koobi. I think it's like your stock fish. Only a little of it is put in food for flavour/seasoning, the koobi, which the op used here, even though salty, is not fermented, and can be boiled and eaten like a regular cooked fish. Where it's used, only a little extra salt is added to the meal so it doesn't become salty.

Why this your interest in Ghanaian stuff?

OdenKelechi:
Coco what??

I can't fit abeg

You're joking right? Liberians eat cassava leaves. To my Ghanaian mind, this sounded funny, because we don't eat them here, but I hear they taste good. The leaves of all these plants around us are edible and rich sources of vitamins and minerals. Nigerians, Ghanaians eat ewedu or jute leaves. People in the north of both Nigeria and Ghana eat all kinds of edible leaves including bean leaves

OdenKelechi:
I think they call it kinkin or something like that.

Growing up, there was this ghanian shoemaker in th neighborhood and dude can barely go a day without eating this thing. He had plantain plantation in the compound for uninterrupted supply of plantain.

It's called ampesie (ampaysay). This's not kenkey (cain kay)

solasoulmusic:


I cook well but I specialize in presentation

How would you present guacamole?

Did he send the something? You Nigerians can be very generous. You same people can commit some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, why?

FatherCHRISTMAS:
e dey my profile. Drop a like on my profile pic too

Stop being ignorant. You know what fresh boiled plantains, cocoyam leaves (vegetable protein), some red oil, pepper, onions, tomatoes and other optional add-ons does for the body? Compared to your fibreless indomie?

OnlyDeCapPlease:
This kind food go dull your husband p.enis

Do you know Mexican food Guacamole? Tell me by it's LOOK whether you'd eat it or not?

millionboi:
Same

I've not heard any stories on the origins of the earthenware bowls, locally called Asanka or Aportoryuwa. Maybe if we dig deeper we'd find something. It's our local blender and also a food serving bowl. Ridges are made in them to make grinding of stuff easier.

They're like your mortar and pestle. Every Ghanaian home has them. We like our raw pepper sauce, to eat our kenkey, banku etc, and this is what we use to grind them. There're also flat grinding stones serving this same purpose.

The fish is called koobi. It's previosly salted fish that's been boiled. Usually tilapia make very good koobi. Fresh tilapia is gutted, soaked in very concentrated saline solution and dried, reason for the fish's "pale" look.it goes well with the meal. A little salted fermented fish is also used to flavour the food/oil, like the stock cubes would do. I've seen Nigerians too use salted fermented fish for food flavouring, but I don't know if you have koobi.

The oil is red palm oil, clear oil too can be used

BRATISLAVA:
Yeah, all the same it's interesting to see a new meal.

I'm interested in these earthenware bowls. How did your people come about them? Any lore on it? They must be like the mortar and pestle Nigerians love.

Why does the fish in the dish look like that? What kind of oil is it?

You're an idol worshipper?

Obeydrules:
If the gods accept this kind sacrifice, I will stop wasting my oji and schnapps on them.


Tufiakwa

Do you know Guacamole? Look it up. It's a mashed avocado food and it LOOKS GROSS. It's all green like this Ghana food, BUT TASTE it and see. If we go with this your attitude of the food looks gross so I won't EVEN taste it, we'd all become ignorant, uninformed people.

Wode Maya went to Ethiopia and they served him RAW meat. As in raw uncooked meat that is spiced. And they said during the Ethiopia-Eritrea war you couldn't make fire to cook your meals lest your enemy made you out. BUT Wode STILL tried the food even though he obviously didn't like it.

Judolisco:
they didn't put it aside....its a case of behaving like the romans while in Rome..... I respect your culture and diversity...but dis one no just follow at all...qualities of a good food includes its external appearance and dis one isn't appealing ....you jst threw everything on it...even the fish looks like a fresh fish from the river...

descarado:
Are you Ghanaian?
I'm not from Ghana but I hate when people that know nothing look down on traditional food of any culture.
Majority are feasting on indomie and MSG. Tomorrow we will contribute money for kidney failure.

Descarado I'm Ghanaian. And yes we should all appreciate the local meals that we have. People can dislike these "local" foods, no problem, but to refuse to even taste it for whatever reason is not the best.

How does it answer the question?

torqque7:
Ghanaians are not dark but black and use to wonder why,but this right here answers the question..damn

You obviously are not ready to learn. There're Nigerian students here in Ghana who put aside their inhibitions about Ghanaian food, and their taste buds have been rewarded handsomely

Judolisco:
thanks but no thanks... D one u posted sef I didn't even look at it twice now imagine me watching someone eat it

They're happy to be eating indomie and rice every day. Nigerians are incredible.

quote author=descarado post=104568470]
The poster might be mischievous but yeah, this is a very popular Ghanaian traditional dish.

You guys are quick to accept English or USA food but not traditional African food.

Incredible![/quote]

Let me help you. Go to YouTube. Type "Mark Wiens in Ghana". Go to his Kumasi videos, and search for where he ate this meal, and come back and give us feedback

Judolisco:
U no even cook d fish... Na werey food dis... If normal person chop am e go cause foodborne disease

She lives amongst you. She's experienced things first hand
quote author=CharisEleos post=104567803]Presentation is a No no.

What kind of food is this by the way?
And you have the guts to say Nigerian women suck at cooking?[/quote]

You know what's lacking in those foods? Soup. Watery, drinkable Ghana type soup that soothes the SOUL and makes you look beautiful and sharpens your thinking processes and energizes the body. My Ghanaian uncles always struggled whenever they visited Nigeria as they couldn't get soup to drink. Food was always stew stew stew, even what Nigerians call soup was actually stew. A no-soup life is disorienting to a Ghanaian. Our Nigerian in law couldn't resist our Ghanaian light soup

quote author=showlove911 post=104567714]Naija no be ur mate for food.
We re gud like dat...

Is only bad leadership we hv![/quote]

How much education do you have? You're judging a food by it's look?, A book by it's cover? Are you serious? If we showed your black amala to a non-Nigerian/whiteman do you know how it'd be rated?

Kay25:
The worst demon in Nigeria won't eat this sacrifice if it was given...chaii Nigeria is indeed giant of Africa even as bad as we look

You people must be very ritualistic to be "floored" by a simple harmless meal. You need Christ

aribisala0:
It looks very Nigerian , honestly not out of place as a sacrifice for deites

No need to be sorry. We actually don't care what you think of our foods. Though I agree she should have presented it well especially as she's dealing with an international audience. Yes it's unripe plantain with cocoyam leaves sauce. Go to YouTube and check Mark Wiens Kumasi Ghana videos where he savoured this meal

quote author=sisisioge post=104570776]

Sorry my brother....I think presenting it well would have made a huge difference. I actually have an idea of what it is....unripe plantain and unripe pepper sauce, right? My grandma Beatrice used to eat it back in the days.[/quote]

Yes it's cocoyam leaves. Yes I agree it doesn't look appealing. To my/our Ghanaian eye our foods are/look/taste ok, but to a "neutral" they'd look shitty. I'm getting it now, and I see why people are comparing some of the meals to sacrifice etc, especially with the use of these earthenware bowls. To our Ghanaian eyes, the meals/ it's presentation look ok. We grind our peppers tomatoes etc in the earthenware bowls, we also eat in them, every Ghanaian home has them. We're not shy of them.

But the op should tweak her food presentation skills a bit, seeing as she's speaking to an international audience

BRATISLAVA:
So it's coco yam leaves. I guess it could taste good. I would be interested in eating it, perhaps with an oil reduction and the fish being grilled.

The pics are not inviting, though.

Nice one. Your people really get bad mouth eno be small.

Ekg911:
yes I'm a Nigerian, but I schooled in Ghana, I enjoy it with boiled yam or white rice. Yummy

That's a GHANAIAN meal. It would look out of place to Nigerians, but it's a very good meal. The other foods the op has posted are all Ghanaian foods. Some may not look presentable, but they're delicious, and we're not ashamed of them. You need to taste them first to know how they're. You Nigerians eating black amala, eye-blinding gari, fibreless noodles, smelly fufu (akpu) etc have mouths to be disrespecting somebody's food

BRATISLAVA:
I don't think anyone really cooked that to eat it. It must be someone trolling Ghanaians. It's not the first time she's posting something that looks like that.

Kontomire/Kontomre. Are you Nigerian? Have you tried Kontomire soup (ebunu ebunu) before? You'd LOVE it.

Ekg911:
that's kotobire. Men I love it with boiled yam, twice on sunday

This's coming from a Nigerian with your legendary world-famous Edo women?, whose exploits is known the world over?

Parizz:
any Ghana girl wey no sabi ashawo na fake

I'm sure it's already salted fish that has been boiled, reason for it's "pale" look. It goes well with the meal

nedekid:
Sorry to ask? Is that fish cooked? Or is the fish eaten raw? Cos it does not seem to have been cut opened and gutted.