How to pronounce Asaana

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /asaana/. In plain English letters that is ah-SAH-nah, 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 Asaana?

Asaana is a drink of Ghana. Where it comes from: Volta (Ewe). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are corn. It tastes sweet.

Where Asaana comes from

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

• 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.

• Shito shitɔ · Snack · Greater Accra (Ga)

  Shito, or shitor din, "black pepper", is a hot black pepper sauce found everywhere in Ghanaian cooking.

Food of Ghana

Dishes like Asaana in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Asaana:

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• Obushera · Drink · Western Uganda, Uganda

  Obushera is the collective name for four traditional fermented cereal drinks from western Uganda: obutoko, enturire, ekitiribita and obuteire.

• Chang'aa · Drink · All Kenya, Kenya

  Chang'aa is a traditional home-brewed spirit, popular in Kenya and very potent.

• Umqombothi · Drink · Eastern Cape (Xhosa), South Africa

  Umqombothi is a traditional South African beer whose name comes from the Xhosa and Zulu languages.