DRINKS/LOCAL DRINKS

Foods and Drinks are enjoyed by many the world over. Many have enjoyed various sumptuous meals that they would like to enjoy again by preparing it themselves or it has been a long while since they prepared some so as a result might need some guide as to how to go about it.


Following are various Ghanaian made local drinks/other drinks recipes. We look at the preparation of the drink accompaniments to our foods we eat everyday. Please read through and prepare yours at home, below are the various recipes for various Ghanaian made Drinks/Local drinks:

PINEAPPLE DRINK

Ingredients

100g Sugar.
2 Medium sized pineapples.
1 small root of ginger (Chopped).
500ml Water.

Preparation

Dissolve sugar in water and add chopped ginger. Boil until you have a syrup and then allow it to cool.

Wash, wipe and cut pineapples and then blend, grate or chop the pineapples. Add a little water.

Strain the juice from the pineapple, either blended, grated or chopped and leave the roughage behind.

Mix the juice with the prepared syrup and then put in a fridge to chill. Serve with chips, cake, biscuit etc.




ORANGE DRINK

Ingredients

4 Oranges.
50g Sugar.
250ml Water.
1 Lemon.
1/4 Ginger root.

Preparation

Wash the oranges and lemon in a basin and then peel them after which they should be cut into two each and their juice squeezed out of them (lemon and oranges).

Sieve the orange and lemon juice and set aside. Prepare syrup by boiling the chopped ginger, sugar and water together for 5 minutes. Allow the syrup to cool.

Mix the orange and lemon juice with the syrup and then chill. Serve with a meal or any accompaniment as biscuit for snack.



LIHA/ASANA

Ingredients

1 bowl (Olonka) of maize.
1 Margarine tin of sugar.
About 4 gallons of water.

Preparation

Soak the maize overnight and the remove from the water, spreading it on a sack in a room. Cover it with some cloth to give room for some germination to take place but with no leaves.

Take the maize out and dry thoroughly in the sun and then pound it in a mortar or grind it using the corn mill to a rough texture.

Pour enough onto the content in a large pot and boil well till you begin to smell a nice aroma it on the fire. This is an indication that it is well cooked.

Take the content off the fire and strain the water from the mixture into a container. Melt 1 cup of sugar in an iron pot or saucepan to become brown and add a little water just to enable you to be able to pour the sugar content.

Take it off the fire and then begin to fetch the sugar content into the strained water from the maize little by little and mixing it in till all the caramel gets finished.

Add some ordinary sugar to taste and then Chill and Serve. 



SOBOLO

Ingredients

1 Margarine tin of sobolo flowers.
Little quantities of ginger, cloves etc.
1 milk tin of sugar.
2 litres of water.
Some pineapple peels (Optional).

Preparation

Put the sobolo flowers into a pot of water and add the pineapple peels, roughly grind ginger, cloves, p3pr3 etc. and boil for about 30 minutes.

Take off fire Drain the off the liquid into a container. Add about half the quantity of the 1st time quantity of water to the sobolo flowers and the boil it the 2nd time.

Drain the liquid off the flowers and add it to the one drained from the 1st boil in the container. Add sugar to taste, chill and serve.


GINGER DRINK

Ingredients 

250g Ginger.
2 Bottles of water.
Sugar to taste.

Preparation

Peel and then grind ginger. After grinding, add water to the grind ginger and then mix it very well. 

Strain the water off the mixture an then add sugar to taste, chill and then serve.



TANKWA BEER

Ingredients

250g Ginger.
A little pepper.
Sorowisa, cloves etc.
2 litres of water.
Sugar to taste.

Preparation

Grind all the ingredients together and then add water to it making sure to mix it well. Strain with a fine net.

Melt sugar into a caramel and then mix the strained liquid with the caramel.

Add ordinary sugar to taste, chill it in a refrigerator and then serve.