How to pronounce Akpeteshie

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /akpɛtɛʃi/. In plain English letters that is ak-peh-TEH-shee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Akpeteshie?

Akpeteshie is a drink of Ghana. Where it comes from: All Ghana. People usually eat it late at night and on festive days. Its main ingredients are vegetables. It tastes rich.

Where Akpeteshie comes from

Akpeteshie is one of 17 signature dishes of Ghana on this map.

• Red red gɔbɛ · Main dish · All Ghana

  Red red is a Ghanaian dish of black-eyed peas cooked in palm oil, served with fried ripe plantain.

• Waakye · Rice dish · Accra (from the north)

  Waakye is rice and beans, usually black-eyed peas, cooked together with dried sorghum leaves that turn the rice a deep reddish-brown.

• Kenkey · Main dish · Ga and Fante coast

  Kenkey is a dumpling of fermented maize dough, partly cooked, wrapped in corn husks or plantain leaves, and steamed.

• Kelewele · Street food · Accra

  Kelewele is ripe plantain cut into cubes, seasoned with ginger, chilli, onion and spices such as cloves or nutmeg, and fried until dark and caramelised.

• Banku · Main dish · Greater Accra (Ga)

  Banku is a staple of Ghanaian cooking: balls of a slightly fermented mixture of maize and cassava doughs, cooked in hot water and stirred until they become a smooth, whitish paste, then shaped into single portions.

• Kpekple · Main dish · Greater Accra (Ga)

  Kpekple, also called kpokpoi, is the festive food of the Ga people of Accra, eaten during Homowo, the harvest festival whose name means "to hoot at hunger" and which remembers a famine in Ga history.

Food of Ghana

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