How to pronounce Kpekple

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kpɛkpɛle/. In plain English letters that is KPEK-pleh, 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 Kpekple?

Kpekple is a main dish of Ghana. Where it comes from: Greater Accra (Ga). People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are corn and fish. It tastes savory.

Where Kpekple comes from

Kpekple is one of 17 signature dishes of Ghana on this map. See all dishes from Greater Accra.

• 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.

• Shito shitɔ · Snack · Greater Accra (Ga)

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

• Aprapransa · Main dish · Greater Accra (Ga)

  Aprapransa, originally called akplijii or akplidzi, is a Ga dish made by cooking roasted corn flour together with palm nut soup until the two become a single dish, so that the soup is built into the meal.

Food of Ghana

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