How to pronounce Hausa koko

Hausa koko is written koko where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /koko/. In plain English letters that is HOW-sah KOH-koh, 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 Hausa koko?

Hausa koko is a street food of Ghana. Where it comes from: Northern Ghana. People usually eat it for breakfast. Its main ingredients are corn. It tastes spicy.

Where Hausa koko comes from

Hausa koko is one of 17 signature dishes of Ghana on this map.

• Wasawasa · Main dish · Northern Ghana

  Wasawasa is a popular dish of Dagbon and of other parts of northern Ghana; it is also eaten in Burkina Faso, Benin and Nigeria.

• 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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