# The best Ghanaian dishes

Jollof, waakye, banku and fufu: the dishes, soups and snacks of Ghanaian cuisine, according to Wikipedia.

- 363 votes · 20 items
- Aug 30, 2018 · Ankit Desai
- https://even.best/en/l/2841/the-best-ghanaian-dishes

## Top 20

1. **Jollof rice** (38 · ▲44 ▼6) — Rice cooked in spiced tomato sauce.
2. **Waakye** (34 · ▲35 ▼1) — Rice and beans cooked with millet leaves.
3. **Banku** (20 · ▲20 ▼0) — Fermented corn and cassava dough.
4. **Red red** (16 · ▲18 ▼2) — Black-eyed beans in palm oil with fried plantain.
5. **Akple** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — Corn dough from the Volta region.
6. **Light soup** (15 · ▲15 ▼0) — Spicy tomato soup.
7. **Kontomire stew** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — Cocoyam leaf stew.
8. **Ampesi** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — Boiled yam or plantain.
9. **Fufu** (12 · ▲18 ▼6) — Pounded cassava and plantain with soup.
10. **Kelewele** (12 · ▲17 ▼5) — Spicy fried plantain.
11. **Kenkey** (12 · ▲16 ▼4) — Fermented corn dumpling in husks.
12. **Groundnut soup** (12 · ▲15 ▼3) — Peanut soup.
13. **Omo tuo** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Rice balls.
14. **Palm nut soup** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — Palm fruit soup.
15. **Bofrot** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Sweet doughnut balls.
16. **Shito** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Hot black pepper sauce.
17. **Garri** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Fermented cassava flakes.
18. **Tatale** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Ripe plantain pancakes.
19. **Koko** (4 · ▲10 ▼6) — Spicy millet porridge.
20. **Nkate cake** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Peanut brittle.

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