Tubani: How to prepare my local favourite food

As a child growing up in the village and farming is the main occupation of the village tubani is one of the main food prepared in the house aside TZ. Tubani is a food mostly prepared by people in the northern part of Ghana.

Tubani is made with bean flour, it is mixed with enough water to make it like cake batter or light enough to run off your hands but thick enough to make a peak. A little salt is added to it to give it a nicer taste.

After mixing the bean flour with water, salt and a local substance call kanwa to form a bean paste, take a pot and cover the bottom with forks and spoons, then find some big leaves that are edible meaning not toxic, put the bean paste in a spoonful and fold the leaves up like a pocket. In the absence of the leaves you can use cans and fill them half full. After place them in layers on the forks and spoons all the while the water is boiling. Cover the pot well and let it steam.

In about 20 minutes, check to see if the tubani in the steaming pot is firm. If so then it is done ready to be served. However, it may take more than 20 minutes to be firm (cooked) when you use cans instead the leaves.

Peal off the leaves and put the tubani on the plate with sauce, it is eaten with chopped tomatoes and onions fried in oil with some seasoning salt.

I like tubani because it is rich in protein hence I recommend it to my friends on the platform. It will also help promote our local foods. It you can not prepare it, you can buy from our mothers who prepare and sell it in the communities or food joints.

Thank you for reading through and I hope you have learnt something from the post. Good bless us all.