How to pronounce Light soup

Light soup is written nkwan hyɛmma where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /aponkye nkɾakɾa/. In plain English letters that is LIGHT soup, 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 Light soup?

Light soup is a soup or stew of Ghana. Where it comes from: Ashanti & Bono (Akan). People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are lamb and fish. It tastes spicy.

Where Light soup comes from

Light soup is one of 17 signature dishes of Ghana on this map. See all dishes from Ashanti.

• Fufu fufuo · Main dish · Ashanti & Bono (Akan)

  Fufu is a pounded staple of West African cooking, and the word itself is Twi, from the Akan of Ghana.

• Kokonte · Main dish · Ashanti & Bono (Akan)

  Kokonte, also known as abetiɛ, lapiiwa or lapelawa, and nicknamed "face the wall", is a staple swallow made from dried, peeled and pounded cassava.

• 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.

Food of Ghana

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