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Banku

Banku /Akple: Fermented corn/cassava dough mixed proportionally and cooked in hot water into a smooth, whitish consistent paste. Served with soup, stew or a pepper sauce with fish.

How To Prepare Banku

• What you need
• six to eight cups of corn (maize)
•  flour or cornmeal (ground corn or ground maize);
•  (White cornmeal is preferred, it should be finely ground, like flour.
•  Latin American style corn flour, as is used in tortillas,
•  tamales,
•  pupusas, etc. is the right kind); for Banku only: a similar amount of equal parts corn flour and grated cassava tuber may be substituted.