Ghanaian Beef Recipes

Ghanaian cuisine — Groundnut soup, kelewele, jollof — vibrant and richly spiced West African cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Ghanaian cooks work with beef, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are grilling, simmering, searing and boiling.

A rich, deeply savoury red meat that rewards both fast, hot searing and long, slow braising depending on the cut. In this collection it's most often cooked with fine sea salt, ground ginger, cayenne pepper, tomatoes, onion and garlic powder. The dishes here span ghanaian classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.