DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Abolo
Sweet Ghanaian corn bread steamed in cornhusks.
About Abolo
Abolo is a sweet corn bread associated with Ghana's Volta Region. Ryan Amico's local account records ground, soaked corn, sugar and water, with an overnight rise and leaf-wrapped cooking; this profile selects the stated steamed version.
Corn gives the bread its cereal flavour and sugar provides sweetness. The account offers pepe, a red-pepper, tomato and oil accompaniment, for a savoury contrast.
The finished bread is described as sponge-like and wrapped in cornhusks. Pepe is an optional accompaniment here, with the source's hard-boiled egg option kept separate from the bread.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Abolo
Volta Region corn abolo documented by Ryan Amico.
- Ground soaked cornBase
- SugarSweetener
- WaterLiquid
- CornhusksCooking medium · Cooking_wrapperIngredient page not linked
- Fresh red peppersAccompaniment · Serving · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- TomatoAccompaniment · Serving · Optional
- OilAccompaniment · Serving · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Hard-boiled eggAccompaniment · Serving · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Ground soaked corn: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Broad maize candidate; source describes ground soaked corn flour, not rice-and-wheat ablo.
- Sugar: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Water: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Cornhusks: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Wrapper in the published preparation; not represented as an edible bread ingredient.
- Fresh red peppers (optional): No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Pepper variety unspecified; optional pepe is a separate serving component.
- Tomato (optional): No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Oil (optional): No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Oil species unspecified.
- Hard-boiled egg (optional): Egg. Selected from the account's egg-or-dried-fish serving alternatives; not part of the corn dough.
Origins & food traditions
Volta Region, Ghana, as documented by resident Ryan Amico in 2012.
Countries
- Ghana
- GhanaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Ghanaian Cuisine
- Ghanaian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.