Ghana Salad From Zoes Ghana Kitchen Recipes

Growing up in a Ghanaian home, we always celebrated important events with a big potluck. Family and friends would be assigned specific dishes, like jollof rice, waakye and shito, rice and stew and plantains. To balance all the rich delicious foods, salad was always on the menu--and it would only be assigned to a person known for their great salads. You can find two versions of Ghanaian salad, and both are very simple to make at home. The usual ingredient in the vegetarian style are lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, onions and baked beans. The non-vegetarian salad includes cooked canned corned beef or cook canned sardines. This recipe is for a traditional vegetarian version--though I've added avocado. Whatever style you prefer, a creamy mayonnaise-based dressing is classic. In my household it was always Heinz salad cream.

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Categories     side-dish

Time 15m

Yield 6 serving

Number Of Ingredients 10

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Text excerpted from ZOE'S GHANA KITCHEN © 2017 by Zoe Adjonyoh. Reproduced by permission of Mitchell Beazley. All rights reserved. *This is basically the mother of all salads with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in - a hugely substantial feast of colour, texture and flavour. I have to point out that this is normally not a very healthy salad with its lashings of mayonnaise and/or Marie Rose sauce, but I've come up with a recipe that focuses on fresh ingredients rather than the canned ones commonly used (canned baked varieties are a favourite in Ghana!) while sticking to the original formula. Photo credit: Nassima Rothacker.

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Categories     African

Time 25m

Yield 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 13

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 434.6, Fat 15.5, SaturatedFat 3.5, Cholesterol 284.8, Sodium 1451.6, Carbohydrate 28.5, Fiber 9.1, Sugar 10.1, Protein 44.9