Waakye is an amazing type of rice recipe. It is a Ghanaian food popularly known in Nigeria, and mostly eaten by the Hausas. It is easy to make, and simple to prepare. Waakye can be prepared, and consume at home, shop, and eatery. Most especially, waakye is available in the street food vendors.
Waakye is such an amazing, and surprising recipe to me. I could remember the first time I came in touch with waakye. I was in secondary school then, to be precise.... I was in Jss 2. It was a new school to attend. The name of the recipe itself sounds like "1k" to me. So a friend of mine said to me...... Her name is Ngozi.
Ngozi: Itunu, let's go buy waakye
Itunu: I was like 1k, how would we buy 1k. Do people sell money.
It sounded very strange to me.
So we got there, and to my surprise I saw the delicious looking waakye rice. It was reddish in colour, served with spaghetti, and fried plantain. We bought it, and got back to the school. I tasted it and found out that it taste so great. The ingredients gave it this kind of different taste, and odour. Worst part of it is that I never knew how to spell waakye, not until I became a food blogger. Had "1k" spelt in my head.
Waakye is as simple as ABC. This recipe doesn't require much ingredients. It also doesn't spend much time. It is prepared like white rice, but other necessary ingredients are put to it. This recipe is mostly paired with spaghetti, fried ripe plantain, and egg.
Here is how to make waakye, and ingredient used in making it.
INGREDIENTS
1.) 2 cups brown rice
2.) 1 cup black eyed peas/beans
3.) 3 handful red sorghum leaves
4.) Salt to taste
5.) 4 cups water
INSTRUCTIONS
1.) Rinse sorghum leaves into a pot, add maximum amount of water that is able to prepare the beans and rice till they become soft, and done. There is no removal of water, unlike when you preparing white rice.
So you have to consider washing the rice as many times, with salt in order to remove the starch.
2.) Immediately water is boiled, rinse the peas into the water, cook for 15minutes. After 15minutes, rinse the rice into the pot. Then cover pot to cook rice all together for 10minutes. Add salt to taste.
3.) Rice is ready. Pair with anything of your choice, stew, vegetables, stock.
In another episode, I would be talking on how to prepare waakye stew with ata gbigbe, and other ingredients. Watch out.
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