Zoe's Ghana Kitchen by Zoe Adjonyoh

Author:Zoe Adjonyoh [ADJONYOH, ZOE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Uncle Francis ‘takes’ one of the following as his home breakfast around 9am – sometimes I’m also allowed to try a local breakfast, too:

Mpotompoto – Cocoyams (taro) chopped into little pieces and boiled, then you add a little salt and pepper and sustainable red palm oil.

Tom Brown – Fried then ground maize (corn) mixed with water and made into porridge, taken with butter bread (the sweetest I’ve tasted, with hints of cinnamon and aromas reminiscent of hot cross buns).

Kokoo – Ground maize (not fried) also mixed with water. This has the consistency of baby food or a certain brand of chicken soup from a can. It tastes like smelted kenkey – that’s because they are different forms of the same thing: ground maize. As with kenkey, it’s pretty bland so I added sugar and Carnation milk. It was still pretty bland. Not wanting to offend, I ate the whole never-ending bowl, but suggested it could do with spicing up, to which Francis replied “Oh yes… Hausa Kokoo – this one has spices and such blended in – I think you will like this one.” So my mission is to track down some Hausa Kokoo before I leave and will definitely experiment with it when I get home.

Uncle Francis loves kokoo and ate a bucket bowl of it. He recommends it for ‘when you are ill or have a fever and can’t take food – it makes you wee a lot and the fever disappears,’ he explains with a hearty laugh.

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