MOGA ’89 Delights
Our Favorite Recipes from Ghana and Around the World
by
Book Cover & Preview Text
Baked Jollof Rice
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time 60 minutes
Serves 6
Ingredients
3 cups jasmine white rice
1 (28 oz) can tomato sauce or 4 medium-sized tomatoes blended
2 inches ginger
2 gloves garlic
2 medium sized onions (dice 1 of them)
Salt and pepper for taste
¼ teaspoon cumin
¼ teaspoon Mrs. Dash seasoning
½ teaspoon curry powder
5 cups chicken stock
2 tablespoons vegetables oil
Method
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a blender, combine 1 onion, tomatoes, ginger and garlic.
- In a saucepan, saute diced onions for 1 minute; add the blended ingredients and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to avoid it sticking to the bottom.
- Add curry, cumin and Mrs. Dash; cook for 5 more minutes.
- Pour the cooked stew into a large oven-ready pan.
- Add rice and stir in the stock.
- Cover the pan with a tin foil and cook for 45 minutes
- Take out and stir; place back in the oven, and bake for another 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let it sit 10 minutes.
Serve with a side of Salad and protein of your choice.
Formats
Book Details
About the Book
This is a book compiled to showcase our favorite recipes from Ghana’s diverse traditional dishes from different ethnic groups, tribes, and clans from the north, south, east, and west. Generally, Ghanaian dishes are mainly made up of a starchy portion (rice, yam, plantain, cassava, cocoyam, maize) and a sauce (tomatoes) or soup saturated with fish (freshwater and saltwater), snails, crabs, meat (including bush meat), or mushrooms with vegetables, such as garden eggs (eggplant), okra, kontomire (cocoyam leaves), and a whole variety of greens and beans.
This book is a reflection of the various cultural diversity in the country and that is also a reflection of the students you will find in Mfantsiman or any boarding school in Ghana.
About the Author
MOGA’89 is the 1989 year group alumni of Mfantsiman Girls Secondary school located in Saltpond, central region of Ghana.
Mfantsiman will be 60 years old in 2020 since its establishment. we the 1989 year group have the privilege to host this mile stone anniversary.
in collaboration with friends of MOGA we decided to create a cook book with our favorite recipes to share as a fundraising activity to support the school.
It is our hope to create the same or even better educational opportunity that Mfantsiman gave us when we entered the boarding school at the age of 12 and 13 to today’s 12 and 13 year old girls.
Being a boarding school, the sisterhood that Mfantsiman created in us is priceless and its our hope to pass it along.