Let’s make Ghana jollof

Jollof is a West African dish. The origin of Jollof can be traced to the 1300’s in the ancient Wolof Empire which spanned parts of todays Senegal. However, there is an argument between Ghana Jollof and Nigerian Jollof. Hopefully after trying my Ghanaian jollof recipe you will know Ghana has the best Jollof.

Ingredient for the Jollof

• 3 cups of basmati rice 🍚
• 3 tin tomatoes sachet
• Blended tomatoes with scotch bonnet pepper
• Oil
• Red onion 🧅
• 2 shrimp Maggie cubes
• Curry powder
• Powdered red pepper
• One sachet of onga all purpose seasoning
• One sachet of onga stew seasoning
• 2 cups of water
• Parsley 🌿
• Salt

Ingredients for Chicken thigh, plantain and sausage

• Neatly washed Chicken thigh
• 3 lemons 🍋
• Blended sizable amount of ginger, garlic,red onion, spring onion and scotch green pepper.
• Spices of your choice
• Plantain
• Sausage

Ingredients for avocado salad

• Cucumbers 🥒
• Tomatoes 🍅
• Onion 🧅
• Avocado 🥑
• Olive
• Parsley 🌿
• Green peas
• Egg 🥚
• Spring onion
• Carrot 🥕
• Cabbage 🥬
• Lettuce 🥬
• Ketchup
• Mayonnaise
• Baked beans
• Green pepper 🫑

Process

We’d start with the “grilled chicken”. Put your blended ginger, garlic, onion…etc on top of fire with the chicken add a little water and leave to boil for few minutes. Put the boiled chicken in a an oven tray, top your chicken up with the chicken stock and leave for 1 hour to grill. Fry plantain and sausage.

“Jollof”Put oil onfire and add chopped onion ,add your parsley 🌿and stir for few minutes. Add tin tomatoes and blended tin tomatoes.Leave to boil for 10 minutes. Add all onga spices, curry powder, powdered pepper and Maggie cubes . Leave to boil for a while and add your basmati rice. Add water and a reasonable amount of salt. Cover saucepan nicely with napkins and leave to cook for 30 minutes. Jollof loves attention so make sure it does not burn and do not stir too much.

“Avocado Salad” add little amount of veggies in a bowl. Top up with mayonnaise, avocado, ketchup, egg, olive and baked beans. Apply the same layout with the remaining veggies to form a layer and add your parsley 🌿. Your avocado salad is now ready for consumption.

I hope you try it out . Have a wonderful day and stay blessed.❤️