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Thank you for sharing these amazing recipes. I bought some of these spices back from Ghana over the summer and am looking forward to trying them when baking.

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The great thing about a lot of these spices are how versatile they can be. Once you have tried them in cookies, you can use them for savoury foods too

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I tried the recipe and the taste is phenomenal! I also added 1/2 tsp espresso powder and it complemented the flavors very well.

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I am totally new to Ghanaian flavors and cooking and this post is an excellent introduction! Baking cookies is my first love and I am very excited to find some of these (new to me) ingredients and give a few of these recipes a go. Thank you! I am thrilled to have found you.

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Awww amazing! Let me know how it goes!

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Such a lovey collection of cookies with some spices, ingredients and flavour combinations that are new to me. I have a packet of grains of paradise in my pantry so they're going to be put to good use!

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Love this! Also you can easily swap grains of paradise for black peppercorn if you are looking for alternative uses

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Amazing!!

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Love this so much!

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This is exciting to me. Lots of spices and items I am not familiar with. I look forward to reading the post in depth and having the opportunity to taste a part of the world I am not familiar with. Thank you!

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I dated a Ghanaian man. He would fill my fridge with Jollof rice and bean stew, which he taught me to eat with bananas and garri on top. I asked him about Ghanaian desserts, I have a sweet tooth. He had rice porridge with peanuts to offer. Thank you for these recipes and for expanding my knowledge of Ghanaian cuisine.

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Jollof and banana or jollof and plantain?

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When he cooked he'd split the base, before adding the rice, into two pots, one would become Jollof and the other bean stew. The Jollof was eaten just as it was no toppings. It was the bean stew that he said traditionally was topped with plantain, but banana was close enough, and some garri.

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Yeah banana is wild, common with Somalian food but we wouldn’t eat banana and Ghanaian dishes even when we can’t find plantain. Beans stew base is also quite different from jollof rice stew. Even if one is not using palm oil . These are quite some adjustment this person made, very unique. Not the common or usual practice.

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Interesting. Thanks for that insight. Perhaps he adjusted the recipes due to being in the States and not having access to all the ingredients. I really have no idea, just what he told me.

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Yeah because there are many Ghanaians who have been in the states decades (my family included) and this has never come up. We learn something new everyday 😊

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Well done! These cookie box posts make me happy. I'm going to see if I have all of the ingredients already at home for any one recipe of yours, if so it'll replace the peanut butter cookies I was going to make with my toddler today.

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Yessss I think after a quick scroll, I have everything for the tamarind cookies!! Had to Google kelewele, I have the individual spices to make up the blend. Excited!

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You really don’t need the kelewele spice, any spice blend that is warm in flavour is perfect. Here is the link to the full recipe on my blog https://thecanadianafrican.com/spiced-tamarind-sandwich-cookies/

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Awesome, thank you!

Shoot, I just realized I may need to actually make a little applesauce, I have whole apples but no sauce. I just read in your website it's used as an egg replacer, should I use one large egg instead?

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