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Kelewele

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Kelewele is a fried spicy plantain dish from Ghana, typically served as a side dish alongside red red or fish stew. It belongs to a wider West and East African, Central American, and Caribbean tradition of frying plantains, known in Indonesia as pisang goreng and in southwestern Nigeria as dodo.

Facts
Classification
Course
Side Dish 1
Origin Region
Ghana 1
Connections

Expresses Tradition

Source Fried plantain (Wikipedia)

In Cuisine

Source Fried plantain (Wikipedia)

Uses Ingredient

Spice, Ingredients
Source Wikidata: Kelewele
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1. Fried plantain (Wikipedia)
  • Consumption and uses
    Kelewele is a fried spicy plantain typically served as a side dish for red red
  • entity description (course)
    Kelewele is a fried spicy plantain dish from Ghana, typically served as a side dish alongside red red or fish stew.
  • In Cuisine: Caribbean Cuisine, Wikipedia category list
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Wikidata: Kelewele
  • Wikidata Q5503628, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Uses Ingredient: Spice, Infobox main_ingredient field: Plantains, spices
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Fried plantain (Wikipedia)
Expresses Tradition: Street Food Culture, Wikipedia category: Category:Street foodView the Source
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