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Today we are going to make Banku which is a fufu-like , it is made from fermented cassava and corn dough. We will serve the Banku with an okra soup. So I am going to show you how to cook banku and okro soup in this episode.
Ingredients:
400g of corn flour
600g of grated cassava or 400g of cassava flour (recommended)
½ cup of water
1 tsp of salt
For the okro soup :
200g of fresh okra, chopped
200g of meat (any meat beef, goat…), cut into small pieces
1 full cup of dried shrimp or one smoked fish
2 or 3 tbsp of palm oil
1 onion, sliced
1 large eggplant or 2 garden eggs
1 tsp grated ginger (optional)
1 large tomato, mashed
½ tsp of baking soda
Chili pepper, to taste
Salt to taste
3to 4 cups of water
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Wow, very interesting to watch you process the Banku from scratch
And just wondering, do they grow eggplant in Ghana? If so that's very good.
You forgot one thing: " wash your hands and eat it using your fingers it will taste better'
What a treat you brought me this morning ! Hmmmm Hmmmm! now I can eat the really "placalli" because that' s what we call it in the Ivory Coast. Are you spoiling us or what? Well….. Let me go and buy my cassava cause I feel like CHEF right now! Thank you!
this reminds me so much of home! now i want to eat Banku, i have some fermented one already, maybe i will make some tomorrow, but i don't like okra soup (too slimy for me) so i will make it with peanut sauce!
i still haven't found the time to upload the other video to show you, but i will! 
The only slight difference is that in the typical placalli we don't add the corn flour. Its pure Cassava fermented. But the rest is the same. The placalli and attieke were popularized by the AKAN people who moved from Ghana to the Ivory Coast Centuries ago. So they brought with them their Banku which became the placalli…..Today placalli is loved by all Ivorians. Thanks for showing me how to do it….. I am becoming a CORDON BLEU….LOL!
I have always loved this recipe and can never learn to make it. i even wasted money on a bag of banku flour that had no instructions on it (go figure). but anyway, i'm so thrilled you did this. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you soooooooooooooooo much. The only challenge i will have is with stirring the banku. I hope I can do it. But thank you thank you thank you thank you sooooooo much.
That is such an interesting dish. I am going to have to try to make something with some of those elements! Thanks for that video!
Can I do this recipe without eggplant?
What do you mean by fermented?
My banku was yellow because my corn flour was yellow. Is that the color it's supposed to be?
cooking the last thing the white stuff is hard. ur videos would be better if u wrote the ingredients down and told us how much of each thing we need
Yes eggplant is grown in ghana. It's called garden eggs.
when u retire that cooker, it should be put in a museum in Africa …LOL to many good meals made in it.
the banku did not get ready
Damm u are so pretty along with those gorgeous meals. I know u got to be HAPPILY MARRIED, IF NOT CAN I PUT IN A APPLICATION,LOL. I am more than ever determined now to visit Africa to eat some good cooking like this. Even marry a beautiful african woman like yourself, have kids and eat good for life, lol. Peace and Love AFRICA.
is it the same baking soda used for baking?
I dont have palm oil in my country. What can i use instead of palm oil?
peanut oil…..
I like banku and okro stew,crab paaaa but i have time to preparing it.
My favoriite ghanaian food, meercii tantii pour la rectte
U are the best cook, but I am from Ghana and I hate this dish with passion. I can't eat it….but my family loves this….I couldn't imagine other Africans would like this. I'm surprised…keep up with the vids. Your making me miss the motherland. : )
are you ghanaian
Hey! Thank you so much. I'm from Ghana and I'm gonna try it. You rock.
Wow thanks for sharing, I'm gone try this….can you make "fouti sauce" nani, djarama fotta
looks delicious, I'm from Ghana and this is my favourite Ghanaian dish
What kind of meat.did she put in.that
Why did you add baking soda to the okra, please?
so that is banku how i wish i could teste it ,it looks delicious in kenya we have ugali its made from maize and its easier to make
I am an American and I have been watching your videos. I have been trying to make African food as it is so good! I made the Palm Nut Butter soup and that came out excellent, I had given some to an African store owner and he loved it. I attempted to make the Chicken in Cumin Sauce but I messed up on that by using large tomatoes instead of smaller ones so it ended up being sorta of a cross between a stew and a chili. I will be attempting the Okra Soup sometime this week and also the Egg Stew or whatever it is called. I love trying new recipes and African culture is fascinating to me.
magi cubes are deadly. avoid.