How to pronounce Shito

Shito is written shitɔ where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ʃitɔ/. In plain English letters that is SHEE-toh, 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 Shito?

Shito is a snack of Ghana. Where it comes from: Greater Accra (Ga). People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are fish and seafood. It tastes spicy and smoky.

Where Shito comes from

Shito 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.

• 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.

• 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

Dishes like Shito in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Shito:

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  Paprykarz szczeciński is a canned fish spread from Szczecin, made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste and vegetable oil, seasoned with onion, salt and spices.

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