@eatwithafia: Let’s try shea fruit. It was a must for us to organize Taste of Bolga during the rainy season because of the abundant fruit and local ingredients. Shea fruit season is in full swing and that means trees are filled with tiny round fruit. Shea trees are literally littered across the Northern Ghana landscape, further emphasizing how important they are in this part of Ghana. Everyone (both humans and animal) loves them for a very good reason because the fruit is tasty. The fruit is not fleshy as the nut takes up most of the fruit itself but what you get is absolutely delicious. The fruit is delicate and bruises easily when ripe. Peeling it is very easy revealing a very soft creamy inside with the texture and colour of a ripe avocado but with a sweet almost caramelly flavour. Ripe shea fruit are what give you the best quality shea butter. Once all the fruits are gathered from the tree and enjoyed, the leftover nuts are processed and stored for the rest of the year to make shea butter till the next year’s harvest. Shea trees can grow for a very long time with trees getting older than a century. Unfortunately, this year’s rains were quite low which has had an impact on agriculture in this part of the country. The farming season has been incredibly delayed and so has the shea fruit harvest. Yield has been said to be very low. We had the amazing opportunity to turn some of these fruits into butter. Leave a butter emoji if you want to see the full shea butter process. #sheabutter #sheafruit #ghanatiktok🇬🇭 #fyp #ghanaianfood

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Thursday 25 July 2024 15:22:22 GMT