Ghanaian Chicken 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 chicken, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, marinating and grilling.

The world's most-cooked protein — mild, lean and endlessly adaptable to almost any spice profile or cooking method. In this collection it's most often cooked with tomatoes, fine sea salt, fresh ginger, tomato paste, scotch bonnet pepper and neutral oil. The dishes here span ghanaian classics ready in as little as 55 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.