
🇬🇭 GhanaCatalog recipe
Ripe plantain cubes tossed in ginger, chili and spices, fried to caramelized edges — Accra's night-market perfume in snack form.
For 4 servings.
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Toss the plantain cubes with ginger, onion, cayenne, anise and salt; let them sit 10 minutes.
Fry in batches at 170°C until the edges caramelize dark, about 5 minutes per batch.
💡 Ripe plantain burns fast — pull them one shade before you think.
Drain and shower with roasted peanuts. Eat standing, ideally at night.
Kelewele is sold after dark, scooped hot into newspaper by vendors whose spice blends are guarded like inheritances. Sweet plantain plus fire plus ginger is the simplest equation in West African street food, and one of the best.
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