FUFU!

Fufu is a favorite dish among the Ghanaian people, and it is one of my favorites too. Rita, an employee at Victory Hotel in Wli Falls, was kind enough to cook it for Mel and I and let us watch the process. 

Rita peeling plantain, which she will add to the cassava. Cassava is similar to potatoes. After the cassava and plantain are peeled and chopped, Rita will boil them to soften them. 

Next, the plantain and cassava will be pounded into a pulp.  

As the cassava/plantain is pounded, Rita continues to add water and mold it. The pulp is transformed to a dough-like substance. 

The fufu is the rolled and shaped into a ball. 

The dish is almost complete! All it needs is the soup and the meat.

Finished! Fufu with eggplant soup and chicken. 

Bon appetit! Fufu is meant to be eaten with your hands. Use your forefinger and middlefinger to scissor off a portion of the fufu and eat! Also, don't chew it! It is meant to be swallowed whole. 

YUM! So good!!!! I have really missed fufu back in the states.