Red-Red
Ghana · Sub-Saharan Africa
- Short description
- Red-red is a hearty bean stew, usually served with fried ripe plantain and a deep orange-red palm oil sheen.
- Ingredients
- Black-eyed pea stew cooked with red palm oil, onion, tomato, chile, garlic, ginger, and fried ripe plantain.
- Cultural note
- Its appeal is contrast: creamy beans, sweet plantain, warm chile, and palm oil color that makes the plate instantly recognizable.
- Common misconception
- The name points to color from palm oil and the stew, not to tomatoes alone.
image credit
Ghanaian Red-Red cuisine dish food.jpg
- creator:
- sshreeves
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY 2.0
- modified:
- Resized for Gochizu.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio. Canonical display text kept as Red-red; TTS input used Ethiopic script to steer a non-US/UK African-accented reading.