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Dried sorghum leaves

Also called waakye leaves, millet leaves, red sorghum leaf sheaths

Dried red leaf sheaths of the sorghum plant. They colour waakye its brown-red and add a faint earthiness.

Origin

Northern Ghana and the Sahel.

Barely any; a hint of hay.

Rinse and boil with the beans, then fish out before serving.

Dry, in a paper bag. They keep for a year.

Waakye

Ghanaian rice and beans cooked together with dried sorghum leaves, which turn the pot red-brown, sold by the ladle from street tables.

Easy