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Shoko

Ghana

What we know so far

Shoko is a Ghanaian beef and greens stew, hot with chilli and scented with aniseed, ginger and garlic: beef browned and simmered long in a thick tomato and onion sauce, with alefu (amaranth leaves), spinach or cocoyam leaves stirred in near the end. It is a winter-months pot in the diaspora and an everyday one at home, eaten with rice, boiled yam or plantain, and it is the Ghanaian relative of Togo's gboma dessi. The aniseed is the signature; without it, it is just a spinach stew.

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 12 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

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Waiting for a cook

Shoko

Ghana

What we know so far

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 12 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

See every dish waiting