Waakye is a Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans, commonly eaten for breakfast or lunch. However, others eat it for supper. Waakye is commonly sold by roadside vendors. The rice and beans, usually black eyed peas or cow beans, are cooked together, along with red dried sorghum leaves. The sorghum leaves and limestone give the dish its characteristic flavor and a red appearance and the sorghum is taken out before consumption. It is commonly served in banana leaf and accompanied by one or...
