Tuo zaafi is a Northern Ghanaian dish made by cooking a combination of maize or millet flour and water. In the Hausa language, tuo means stirred, and zaafi means hot. Sticky, starchy, and full of carbohydrates, tuo zaafi is traditionally served with okra soup. Tuo Zaafi is also a highly nutritious delicacy eaten with special vegetable leaves used in making the accompanying soup, including ‘ayoyo’,’Aleefi’, ‘Kuukar’, ‘Okra’ and ‘Shuray’ leaves, etc.

The other types include millet but besides these types, there are others that one either can add corn dough or cassava flour. ”I eat Tuo Zaafi almost all the time even though I’m an Akan.

There are different types of tuo zaafi depending on the flour used in making it but the most common in the southern part is corn flour.