Banku |
Banku is a Ghanaian dish which is cooked by a proportionate mixture of fermented corn and cassava dough in hot water into a smooth, whitish consistent paste.
Ingredients:
- Cassava dough
- Corn dough
- Pepper
- Onion chopped
- Tomatoes chopped
- Green pepper chopped
- Eggs
- Carrot
- vegetable oil
Method
- Wash pepper, tomatoes, onions and grind in machine. adding some salt.
- Crack eggs in a bowl. Add chopped tomatoes, onions, green pepper, carrots, salt and whisk.
- Heat a non-stick skillet to medium-high heat and spray with some oil.
- Pour egg mixture and turn over when the sides begins to brown.
- Put another saucepan on fire for the Banku,
- Add water and salt, cover to boil.
- Wash your hands and mix and mash up the corn and cassava dough in a bowl to form a paste picking out all the lumps and fibre that are in it.
- Put the watery paste in the saucepan and stir gently until it starts to thicken.
Note: As it progresses, it will start to gather at the bottom of the spoon and will need more and more force to stir it.
- Reduce the heat. Now use a dish cloth or towel to hold the pot in place, and still with the wooden spoon, start to knead it.
- Do this for about 5 minutes resting in between.
- Add 1 cup of water and use the wooden spoon to make a few holes in the mass.
- Increase the fire and cover.
- Turn it a few times during this process as the mixture bowls.
- When the water is almost finished, turn down the heat and start kneading the Banku again.
- Another 5 minutes should do it. Use a small bowl to shape the Banku into your preferred serving sizes.
Serve the Banku.
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