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Josh Miller, food editor.Bad boy, bad boy, Waakye gonna do?Well, if you're a street vendor in Accra, you're gonna get up at 2 a.m. and start making your shito and waakye (pronounced "WAH-chay") for the bustling queue of commuters lining up for their five-course breakfast.. What is.
Waakye truly is, in my opinion, the meanest street food alive.. Photo by Antonis Achilleos / Prop Styling by Christina Daley / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey.Waakye (also called awaakye) is more than one thing.First off, it's rice and beans.
The word "waakye" is from the Hausa language, and is the contracted form of the full name "shinkafa da wake," which means rice and beans.This explanation is supported by origins of the dish being placed in Northern Ghana with the Hausa communities, whose staple crops are rice and beans.
So waakye is simply "rice and beans."
It's made with fragrant basmati rice or jasmine rice and beans (usually black-eyed peas or cow beans), cooked together with waakye leaves (sorghum leaves or stalks) that lend their pink-reddish brown hue to the rice.Just know that some more basic brands may lack the extra features you may be looking for.
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