Name: Stirred Fermented Corn Dough (Banku)
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: 1½ cups homemade fermented corn dough with any mold scraped off, or frozen packaged banku dough (corn and cassava), defrosted; 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Ghana Cookbook

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

About

Fermented corn dough can either be homemade, bought frozen, or prepared from a powder mix. If using powdered “instant” banku, first add water to make the dough, then proceed as with already prepared dough.

Ingredients

1½ cups homemade fermented corn dough with any mold scraped off, or frozen packaged banku dough (corn and cassava), defrosted
1 teaspoon

Method

Directions

In a 3-quart saucepan with a handle, mix the dough with 1½ cups water by hand or with a wire whisk to make a smooth paste. Mix in the salt.
Put on the sto

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