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Food in Ghana. Common foods School food. Daily Bread. School children and workers will eat this in the daytime. Here is the bread dough that is sold on the street. Here is the baked bread. Ready to be sold. Preparing Akple. Akple – maize dough finely ground and boiled in water. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Food in Ghana
•Common foods•School food
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Daily Bread
Here is the bread dough that is sold on
the street
School children and workers will eat this in the
daytime
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Here is the baked bread...
Ready to be sold
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Preparing Akple
Akple – maize dough finely ground and boiled in water
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Akple and Okro soup
Akple – Here’s the dough after it has
been baked
Okro Soup – A soup made from finely chopped and ground red
peppers, mixed with palm oil, okra and water. A smoked fish will be
cooked in this soup.
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Preparing the okra for the soup
Here are the vegetables, the chopped red pepper and the fish ready to be
made into soup.
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How to eat Akple and Okro soup.
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KenkeyWhen the Akple is covered with corn
husk, and is steamed, a Kenkey
is prepared
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Preparing the Kenkey
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Eating kenkey with your hands
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Kenkey is eaten with fish cooked in red pepper sauce and hot spices.
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Yam being fried
A yam is a vegetable not dissimilar to a
potato.
The yam is fried in palm oil.
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Black eyed beansThe beans will
be soaked then boiled
and eaten with rice and palm
oil.
Beans with Gari – what is Gari?
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Common cereal - cassava
These grains of corn will be dried to make
Gari.
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Baked Cassava - Fufu
Fufu is a soft dough eaten with meat or
fish
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A popular common meal.
Beans cooked in a red pepper
paste.
Gari
Smoked Mackerel cooked in a spicy tomato sauce.
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A quick breakfast
An egg and tomato mixture
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Fish
Fish - first smoked then cooked – Why do people smoke fish?
Why do the villagers eat so many fish?
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The fish will be eaten with Akple (maize)
Every single part of the fish is used – there is no waste!
Everyone eats fish regularly.
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Fish in sauce with akple
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Fish and cereals
Groundnut soup with fish
Soft cereals
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Different kinds of fish
Do you recognize some of these fish?
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Storing the fish
Fish, catch, salt or smoke.
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Fruit Coconuts – you can
drink the milk.These coconuts have fallen off the trees.
... And eat the flesh inside
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Common fruits
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Snacks we have bought
Tomato sauce
Tomato and red onion
Avocado
Fried Plantain
Fried Yam
Salt
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Bissap juice
Leaves from the Hibiscus flower are used
to prepare this juice
The juice from the leaves are mixed with water
and sugar
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Rice and water
Quite often the schoolchildren will drink rice and water as a quick
snack
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Maize and water - Koko
The schoolchildren will drink this at playtime.
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Food available at school
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Buying or bringing food
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Preparing oranges for the purpose of eating
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The preparation kitchen