Moga ’89 Delights: Our Favorite Recipes from Ghana and Around the World

By MOGA '89

This is a book compiled to showcase our favorite recipes from Ghana’s diverse traditional dishes from different ethnic groups, tribes, and clans from the north, south, east, and west. Generally, Ghanaian dishes are mainly made up of a starchy portion (rice, yam, plantain, cassava, cocoyam, maize) and a sauce (tomatoes) or soup saturated with fish (freshwater and saltwater), snails, crabs, meat (including bush meat), or mushrooms with vegetables, such as garden eggs (eggplant), okra, kontomire (cocoyam leaves), and a whole variety of greens and beans.

 

This book is a reflection of the various cultural diversity in the country and that is also a reflection of the students you will find in Mfantsiman or any boarding school in Ghana.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Oct 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781489715883

MOGA '89

MOGA’89 is the 1989 year group alumni of Mfantsiman Girls Secondary school located in Saltpond, central region of Ghana. Mfantsiman will be 60 years old in 2020 since its establishment. we the 1989 year group have the privilege to host this mile stone anniversary. in collaboration with friends of MOGA we decided to create a cook book with our favorite recipes to share as a fundraising activity to support the school. It is our hope to create the same or even better educational opportunity that Mfantsiman gave us when we entered the boarding school at the age of 12 and 13 to today’s 12 and 13 year old girls. Being a boarding school, the sisterhood that Mfantsiman created in us is priceless and its our hope to pass it along.

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Contents

STARTERS

Octopus Delight (nibbles)

Cucumber Delight

Hot Like Kelewele

Kaaklo

Tofu Khebab

SOUP

Mushroom Soup (Korea)

Seaweed Soup (Chinese)

Melonzanie (Italian)

LIGHT MEALS

Bell Rolls

SALADS

Avocado Paste (Norwegian delicacy)

Basil/Dill (European)

Roasted Shrimp Vegetable Salad

Plantain Cups with Shrimp and Avocado

Ghana Salad

Yam salad

Tabbouleh Salad

Main Dishes

Fish Stew, Fanti Style

Blackeye Pea Stew (Red Red)

Fried Spaghetti with Rice

Gari Foto

Eggplant Stew

Baked Jollof Rice

Aboboi Beans (Garbanzo or Bambara Beans) Sauce

Palm Sunday (Palm Nut Soup)

Turkey Tail (Chofi)

Chicken Okro Soup

Goat Light Soup

Koobi and Egg Stew

Stir Fried Fonio with Shrimp

Jack Potato

Wrewre Soup

Mac and Cheese

Plantain Cake (Ofam Alias Boodoongo)

Fried Fish and Stir-Fried Peppers

Baked Potatoes

Pasta Tuna and Pomegranate

Yam Balls

Ashanti Fast Food (Abom Stew)

Palaver Sauce with Red Beans

Grilled Chicken

Waakye (Baked)

Tatale

Green Shito

Oblayo

Bankye or Agbeli Krakro

Fonio Porridge

Baked Beef Jollof

Skillet Fried Fresh Tilapia and Stir-Fried Peppers

Abunu Abunu Soup with Fufu

Mashed Potatoes

Sautéed Mushrooms (breakfast) and Toast

Tuna and Pasta Salad

Pan Fried Liver Khebab

Baked Shrimp with Pasta Dinner

Crunchy Potatoes Balls (12 to 15 balls)

Korean Style Fried Chicken

Yummy Fishy (Fanti Fanti)

Agushi soup

Orange Chicken Stir Fry

Fried Octopus Recipe

Chicken stew

Groundnut soup

Garden Egg Stew

Fish Vegetable Stew

ɛWↃPLɛ with Pepper and Kpobitabi (Keta School Boys)

Oto

Meat Turn Overs.

Steamed Bean Cakes (Moyinmoyin)

Simple Gravy

Roasted Plantains

Grilled Pork

Senegal Rice and Fish

Poisson Braise

Cheb

Chicken Light Soup

Yo ke Gari

Surprise Chicken

Apraprasa

Tuo Zaafi, Ayoyo and Stew.

Suya powder

Ghana Plain Tomato Gravy

Deserts and Drinks

Blueberry Muffin Smoothie

Tiger Nut Pudding (Atadwe milk)

Tropical special

Taste of the Tropics

Pineapple Choice

Mango Madness

Sponge Cake

Beetcoco-Drink

Melonmint

Pinemint

Melongin

Avocado/Banana

Banana/Dandelion leaves

Banana/Mango/Nuts

Beetroot/Banana

Coconut/Beetroot/Banana

Vegetarian Dessert

Cashew Pudding

Almond Pudding

Bofrot

Special smoothie

Green blast smoothie

Sweet Spinach smoothie

Boiled Cake

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Donuts

Adaakwa/ Zowey

Banana cake

Coconut and Rum/Cognac Cake

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Twisted Cakes (Atwimo)

Sweet Potato Bread

Coconut Pudding

Derge

Crepes Ghana pancakes

89 Cook Book Committee Members

Selassie Fynn (chair)

Hetty Wiredu

Hetty Hagan

Francisca Korley

Yacoba Godwyll

Melissa Tettey

Gifty Ussher

Evelyn Eshun

89 Cook Book Contributors

Yaa Akomeah

Amelia Laing

Francisca Korley

Gifty Ussher

Hetty Wiredu

Rosemond Boateng

Evelyn Eshun

Isabella Blay

Selassie Fynn

Hetty Hagan

Charlotte Kyei-Manu

Gifty Anti

Stella Lisk

Hannah Yankson

Melissa Tettey

Yacoba Godwyll

Adjoa Akoto-Sasu

Josephine Sackey

Martha Yalleh

Roseline Sowah

Friends of ’89 Contributors

CaTina Fynn

Beryl Hammond

Ama Larbi- Siew

Lady Pearl Aidoo

Mrs Enchill

89 Cook Book sponsors

Star Assurance Co Ltd

Multiply Engineering LTD

Alvanna Ventures

Rockpoint Company Ltd

Global Trot Travel LTD

CoDames LTD

The Standpoint Program

Omega Compu Systems

Charlotte Kyei-Menu

Irene Hagan

Frankline Mensah

Frances Essiaw

Yaa Akomeah Pooku

Stella Lisk

Hannah Essuman

Professor Asasie-Oppong

Faith Lodge & Jazz Bar

Royal Hibiscus

ROCKPOINT Company Ltd

Achimota School Akoras: OAA 1987 Yeargroup

SOWGREEN Organic Farms

KUA

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Introduction

We are ’89 MOGA, the 1989 alumni group of Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School. As the co-host of our alma mater’s 60th anniversary celebration in May 2020, we are pleased to share this, a cookbook of our favorite recipes, with friends and family to fundraise money to sponsor the event.

Mfantsiman is a boarding school in the central region of Ghana, Saltpond to be precise. We were at age 12- 13 when we started in 1985. We gathered at the dining hall for all our meals. We remember being served Oblayo for breakfast, cassava and Kontomire stew for lunch, plain white rice with beef stew for dinner.

We are a group that is 99.9 percent Ghanaian by origin. Our recipes