Ghana has diverse traditional dishes from each ethnic group, tribe and clan from the north to the south and from the east to west. Generally, most Ghanaian dishes are made up of a starchy portion (rice, fufu, banku, tuo, gigi, akplidzii, yekeyeke, etew, oto etc) and a sauce or soup saturated with fish, snails,meat or mushrooms. Some of the main starchy dishes are: Cooked rice, Fufu - pounded cassava and plantain or pounded yam and plantian, Banku/Akple - cooked fermented corn dough and cassava dough, Kenkey - fermented corn dough, that has been cooked, cooled and then wrapped in leaves, Konkote - from dried cassava chips Most Ghanaian dishes are usually served with a stew (tomato sauce) or soup.

The most popular soups are groundnut soup, light soup and palmnut soup. Okro soup and stew are also popular. Usually rice and kenkey are served with soup, while Banku, Fufu, Akple and Konkonte are served with soup.

Another popoular dish in ghana is kelewele. It is sometimes served with rice and stew, and sometimes just eaten alone as a dessert. Ghanaian dish made from ripe plantain. ...