Indulgences

1. Kelewele

   Kelewele (spiced fried plantain)

   Usage

   Street snack of ripe plantain cut into cubes, spiced and fried. It is sometimes served with peanuts and also goes beside red red

   Grammar Note

   The snack name is written as it appears at stalls and shops.

2. Koose

   Koose (spicy bean fritter)

   Usage

   A spicy fritter made from peeled beans. It is eaten for breakfast with porridge or sandwiched in bread (Koose Bread)

   Grammar Note

   Elsewhere in West Africa it is also called akara. The name koose is the Dagbani form.

3. Bofrot

   Bofrot (fried dough ball)

   Usage

   A fried ball of wheat-flour dough, a common Ghanaian street snack sold at many stalls. It is also called puff-puff

   Grammar Note

   In Ghana it is spelled bofrot or boflot. Puff-puff is the name from Nigeria.

4. Atchomon

   Atchomon (crunchy fried dough squares)

   Usage

   Crunchy squares of fried wheat-flour dough about an inch wide. It is the name used in Togo and Benin; in Ghana it is achomo and in Nigeria chin chin

   Grammar Note

   Atchomon is the French-language spelling.

5. Kuli-kuli

   Kuli-kuli (crunchy peanut snack)

   Usage

   A hard snack made from what is left after pressing oil from peanuts. It is eaten alone or with gari mixed with sugar and water

   Grammar Note

   It was first made by the Nupe people of Nigeria and is also eaten in Benin and Ghana.

6. Nkate cake

   Nkate cake (peanut sweet)

   Usage

   One of the sweet Ghanaian treats made from peanuts, sold at stalls and markets

   Grammar Note

   Descriptions of Ghanaian food list it as nkate cake.

7. Kube cake

   Kube cake (coconut sweet)

   Usage

   A Ghanaian sweet made from coconut. There is also a candy version called kube toffee

   Grammar Note

   The snack name is written as it appears at stalls and shops.

8. Tatale

   Tatale (ripe plantain fritter)

   Usage

   A fritter made from ripe plantain, listed with kaklo among Ghana's fried sweet foods

   Grammar Note

   The snack name is written as it appears at stalls and shops.

9. Ice kenkey

   Ice kenkey (chilled kenkey dessert)

   Usage

   A chilled dessert of kenkey (steamed fermented-maize dough) with water, milk, sugar and peanuts, popular at market stalls. It is also eaten with bread or bofrot

   Grammar Note

   Kenkey is the Ga name; the Ewe call it kom.

10. Ablo

    Ablo (steamed, slightly sweet maize pancake)

    Usage

    A steamed, slightly sweet maize pancake, also made with rice (Togo)

    Grammar Note

    The snack name is written as it appears at stalls and shops.

11. Akpan

    Akpan (fermented maize ball)

    Usage

    A soft, slightly tangy ball of fermented whole maize flour steamed in banana leaves (Togo), eaten as a dessert

    Grammar Note

    The snack name is written as it appears at stalls and shops.

12. Gari soakings

    Gari soakings (gari with sugar, groundnut and milk)

    Usage

    A modern favourite that mixes gari (dried, roasted cassava) with sugar, groundnuts and milk

    Grammar Note

    Gari soakings is the English name.

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