🇬🇭 Ghanaian Cuisine

Waakye

Rice and Beans

Prep Time 1 hour
Servings 6
Difficulty Medium
Calories 440 kcal

A beloved Ghanaian street food of rice and black-eyed beans cooked together with dried millet stalks that impart a distinctive reddish-brown colour and earthy flavour.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Boil soaked beans with millet stalks and baking soda for 30 minutes until half-cooked.
  2. 2 Add washed rice and enough water to cover. Stir gently.
  3. 3 Cook on medium heat for 25 minutes until rice and beans are tender and water is absorbed.
  4. 4 Remove millet stalks. Fluff with a fork and serve on banana leaf.

Did You Know?

The deep red colour of waakye comes from dried millet leaf stalks — without them, it is just ordinary rice and beans.