Ofam

What we know so far

Ofam (ablongo in Ga) is Ghana's spicy plantain cake: black, overripe plantains mashed with grated onion, ginger and hot pepper, bound with a little flour or rice flour, enriched with red palm oil, and baked in a loaf tin until set and orange. It is sweet from the fruit and hot from the pepper at the same time, eaten warm in slices with roasted groundnuts as a snack, breakfast or dessert. It is an Akan dish, once wrapped in leaves and baked in the embers; the Ewe still make it that way, wrapped in plantain leaf, and call it epitse.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 8 ingredients and 7 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

1. Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
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