Cooking most popular food in the Volta region || Akple with Ademe detsi \Ayoyo\Jute leaves || Ghana

fresh fish

🥗Healthier: grilled chicken

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is more affordable and offers a similar texture.

cornmeal

🥗Healthier: whole grain flour

💰Cheaper: maize flour

Maize flour is often less expensive and still provides a similar flavor.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: sunflower oil

Sunflower oil is often cheaper while still being a good cooking oil.

seasoning cubes

🥗Healthier: homemade spice mix

💰Cheaper: salt and pepper

Homemade spice mix can reduce sodium and save costs.

Go to the market to buy ingredients.

Chop onions, garlic, and ginger.

Grind the garlic, ginger, and onions together.

Fetch clean water from a well.

Prepare the soup by adding palm oil and chopped garden eggs.

Add seasoning cubes and shrimp powder to the soup.

Add mackerel to the soup and cook.

Boil water in a pot for the Akple.

Add corn flour to the boiling water to make a porridge-like mixture.

Stir the corn flour into the boiling water until it thickens.

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