Preparation Of Waakye And Sauce.

Hello everyone, welcome to Hive Learners Creative Sunday Initiative. Today I prepared something delicious and you will definitely love it.

Waakye pronounced as Wankee by Nigerians is a meal that originated from Ghana but many Nigerians love the meal and even prepare it in their homes. Before I knew the secret behind Waakye, I always purchased it from a food vendor but after I discovered it, I stopped because I found more joy in preparing the meal myself.

Waakye is tasty and nutritious, the addition of Waakye's secret recipe takes your rice to a whole different level in every ramification. The only secret about Waakye is adding "The Red Sorghum Fluid" which can be gotten by boiling the Red Sorghum leaves or stalk. The fluid is all that makes the difference, it gives your rice a distinct colour and taste.

You can mistake Waakye for Jollof rice if you don't taste it but it's not the same meal. Waakye is just rice prepared with a medicinal and nutritious fluid. While growing up, the Red Sorghum Fluid serves as a blood tonic for us. I remember how my mom added milk to it and we drank it as a blood tonic but that was quite a long time.

Preparing Waakye is economical as you can get the Red Sorghum leaves stalk for as low as 200 naira. The other recipes for the sauce are cheap as well but you can decide to go for more expensive proteins.

What are the recipes used?

1. Red Sorghum stalk
2. Blended Pepper
3. Fried fish
4. Cowskin
5. Onions
6. Groundnut oil
7. Basil leaf
8. Seasoning Cubes
9. Salt
10. Rice
11. Eggs

You can decide to use other things, chicken, prawn, snail or beef will be perfect in the sauce

Preparation

• Rince the Red Sorghum stalk throughly before boiling
• Boil the eggs and remove the shell
• Wash the Cowskin and boil if possible.
• Rinse and slice the onions
• Rinse and boil the slice Basil leaves.
• Rinse and blend the pepper.

1. Perboil the rice first because it would be impossible to do that after using the Red Sorghum Fluid.

2. When the rice has been parboiled, put the Red Sorghum Fluid in the pot and let it get hot.

3. When it's hot, turn the parboiled rice into and add salt. Let it cook like a proper rice and it is ready for consumption.

SAUCE

• I started by heating the oil before adding the Cowskin and onions, I allowed it to fry for a minute before turning the blended pepper into the hot oil as well. I added salt and seasoning after.

• I added the egg and fried fish, you can add any protein you intend to use as well and allow the stew to fry.

Preparing Waakye and the sauce is quite easy but the nourishment you get from it is huge. Red Sorghum leaves are known to have the ability to combat cardiovascular-related diseases and it means you aren't just eating rice but also fortifying your body system.

Although rice is carbohydrate, you have basil leaf, fish, egg, oil and every other thing to make your meal balanced diet.

Have you eaten Waakye before, share your experience and feel free to share your Waakye recipe, let's learn from you.