What is shito
Ghana’s ketchup, if ketchup had teeth.
Shito — Ga for shitor din, “black pepper” — is a slow-cooked black pepper sauce from the Ga people of Accra. Dried fish, prawns and crustaceans, ginger, garlic and peppers go into hot oil for over an hour, until everything collapses into something darker and deeper than the sum of it.
It goes with kenkey, banku, waakye, steamed rice and gari. It also goes with eggs, noodles and things nobody in Accra would sanction. We’re not going to stop you.
Ingredients & method
Dried fishGround prawnGingerGarlicOnionDried chilliTomatoSpicesVegetable oil
Everything is ground, then cooked down in oil for well over an hour — long enough that the oil separates and rises, which is how you know it’s finished and how it keeps. No preservatives, no shortcuts, no thickeners. If the top layer looks like oil, that’s because it is. Stir it back in.
60min+
In the oil
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Preservatives