Waakye

Ingredients

Quantities for 6 servings.

• 300 g Black-eyed beans, soaked overnight
• 500 g Long-grain rice
• 10 g Dried sorghum leaves
• 1 pinch Baking soda
• 2 piece Plantain, ripe, to serve
• 6 piece Eggs, boiled, to serve
• 150 g Gari, to serve
• 100 g Shito sauce, to serve
• 60 ml Vegetable oil
• to taste Salt

Method

1. Rinse the sorghum leaves and boil them in a litre and a half of water for ten minutes; the water turns deep red.
2. Take the leaves out, add a pinch of soda and the beans and cook forty-five minutes, until nearly done.
3. Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and add it to the pot. The liquid should stand a finger above the rice.
4. Salt it, cover and cook twenty minutes on a low heat without stirring.
5. Take it off the heat, leave it covered ten minutes, then fluff it with a fork.
6. Fry slices of ripe plantain until caramel-coloured.
7. Serve with egg, gari, shito and plantain, all on one plate.