Ghanaian Tomatoes 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 tomatoes, 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, frying and grilling.

Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with fine sea salt, scotch bonnet pepper, tomato paste, onion, scotch bonnet peppers and red palm oil. The dishes here span ghanaian classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Ghanaian Jollof Rice (Smoky Tomato Rice with Long-Grain) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,380 ratings.