Name: Spinach and Mushroom Soup with Smoked Turkey (Baa Wonu)
Yield: Makes 6 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon dried ground red pepper or to taste; or for the adventurous, add 1 fresh seeded jalapeno (mild), or 1 sliced seeded cayenne pepper (hotter), or 1 or 2 whole unseeded habaneros with the tops sliced off (hottest); 8 ounces fresh young spinach leaves; 4 scallions; 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced; 2 pounds smoked turkey with bones (or 1 pound boneless); Salt or seasoned salt to taste; 3 tomatoes

Preparation info

Makes
6
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Ghana Cookbook

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

About

This soup traditionally uses young cocoyam (kontomire) leaves, but spinach makes an acceptable alternative. Smoked turkey substitutes for traditional smoked game. However, in parts of the United States, smoked turkey is difficult to locate except around the Thanksgiving to New Year holidays, which might make this a good holiday meal choice.