CONTEST TIME: Share With Us How To Prepare Your Favorite Food (Dish) By @awumpini

Hello good afternoon lovely members. Hope you are all doing great. It’s a much pleasure to be part of these challenge.@juzkid and @steem-ghana, I say a very big thank you for organizing such a great contest. My favorite food is Banku with pepper

BANKU WITH PEPPER AND SARDINES

_{prepared by @awumpini}

Banku is a dish eaten by Ghanaians.This food can be served as both lunch and supper. Because of its thickness, it cannot be served as breakfast. Breakfast is always foods we take in the morning. And it is not advisable to take foods like Banku in the morning. This food can be served with pepper and sardines or eggs as shown in the picture above. Those who do not like pepper can also take this food with okra or groundnut soup.

INGREDIENTS

• Pepper
• Green pepper
• Onions
• Sardines
• Fresh tomatoes
• corn though
• cassava though
• Salt

PROCEDURES

To start with, I will like to talk about how to first prepare the Banku. Many people say it’s difficult but it’s not when you know the procedures. Even though it needs a lot of time. Incase you are using cool pot, you have to set your fire first.

By the help of a pot, pour the corn and cassava though together. Mix it with your hand or with a cooking ladle.Add a minimum of water to the though and stir it with the help of the cooking ladle.

Put the pot containing these mixtures on the fire you set earlier on. Keep on stirring it until the though becomes thick. If it’s still watery by 30-1hour, then it means there is no enough fire under. You have to add charcoal to the fir and fan it.

Stir it very well and if it is too hard too, then you add hot water to it. Not necessarily hot water, but you can add warm water and leave it for 5minutes before you stirring again. It is not that difficult to cook but it is just the stirring that most people can not do. With this stirring, strength doesn’t count.

Where and when this dish can be served

As I said earlier on, this food can be served in many occasions like weddings, naming ceremonies and even funerals. Some even serve this in some parties. It can be taken as lunch or dinner.

Where you learned how to prepare it?

I learnt this in a friend’s house. Back at junior high school, I used to go their house after every closing. I usually go there to watch movies. My friend always cook with her mother and I sometimes help. Her mother taught me so many things. She taught me how to cook almost all the foods. It cost me 20 Ghana cedis to prepare it which is 8 steems only.

I invite @miinah123 @kataali and @aisha567 to join this contest.

THANK YOU