06 to 10 Street Snacks In Ghana
#06 Atsipipi
Atsipipi is made from corn flour and sugar. This snack is popular in the Volta Region, nonetheless you can see it in the busy towns and cities across Ghana. You can enjoy this snack best with dry coconut or roasted peanut. Go gentle on this one as it can test your teeth’s strength.
GHC 5.00
Freshly fried atsipipi
Freshly fried atsipipi
#07 Bofloat
This snack is made with flour. The taste is like indigenous Ghanaian sugar bread that is deep fried. Ghanaian love this snack with local drinks or ice-ream. Others like it with peanuts.
You can find this in traffic, selling alongside roasted peanuts or ice-cream. If you however want it with drink, you have to buy both from separate vendors. I do enjoy bofloat with sobolo or asaana. Bofloat with ice kenkey is also not a bad ‘combo’.
GHC 3.00 -5.00
Freshly fried bofloat
Bofloat: crumb texture and feel
#08 Blukina
Blukina is made from fresh cow milk and millet. It is mostly served chilled with roasted peanuts. Other recipes have fan ice and powdered milk. You will get this everywhere in the street but the legendary taste of blukina rests with the Muslim communities. Enjoy this with peanuts.
Bottled blukina
Enjoying blukina from a disposable cup.
#09 Ice-kenkey
Firstly, a more appropriate name for this should be ‘mashed kenkey’ but we love our names so we wont change it. This is made from majorly fante-kenkey. Its milled with water, roasted peanut, milk and sugar. This is bottled, refrigerated and sold on the streets.
You can take this with bofloat or any Ghanain pastries, even bread. There are some mixtures that do not have milk, and roasted peanuts in it. You can buy extra roasted peanuts to make a combo and enjoy.
GHC 6.00 – GHC 10.00
Bottled and plastic bag ice-kenkey, resting in ice blocks.
Packaged ice kenkey. This is what you will get in some supermarkets or retail shops
#10 Graphic & Times
The name has nothing to do with this snacks. Its a jargon used to describe this snack. In the olden days, people used to eat this snack while reading newspapers, hence the name.
This snack is made by roasting corn and peanuts and then slightly salting it. Its is bottled these days.
GHC 5.00
Bottled graphic and times.
Bagged graphic and times
‘If you have tried any or some of these snacks, tell us about it in the comments’