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Tubaani

Name: Tubaani
Cuisine: Ghana

Traditional dish from Ghana

Vegetarian

About Tubaani

staple food in Northern Ghana

Tubaani, also referred to as steamed black-eyed peas' pudding, is a popular Ghanaian dish that is commonly eaten in the northern regions and Zongo communities of Ghana. The dish consists of a paste made from the flour of black-eyed peas and water which is then cooked after being first wrapped in the sweet-tasting, aromatic leaves of the Marantaceous herb Thaumatococcus daniellii and served with gravy or pepper and sliced onions tossed in hot vegetable oil.