We did the three hours so you do not have to.
Meera is made in Ghana by Hakama Company Ltd. We take palmnut fruit, agushie and millet through the slow work and seal it into a tub. What reaches your kitchen is the finished part of the job.
Nobody stopped loving abɛnkwan. They stopped having the afternoon it takes.
Between the market, the traffic and the job, the pot that used to sit on the fire all Saturday quietly disappeared from a lot of Ghanaian kitchens. What replaced it was usually a cube, a sachet, and a taste nobody was proud of.
Meera puts the real thing back on the table. Not a shortcut in flavour, a shortcut in labour. The palmnut is still palmnut. We already cooked it.
Five stages, no fourth ingredient
This is the whole process. If a stage is not listed here, it does not happen.
Palmnut fruit, agushie and millet sourced from Ghanaian farms, with rural women suppliers at the centre of that network. Nothing imported, nothing reconstituted from powder.
Every batch is hand sorted before it goes near a pot. Bruised fruit and foreign matter come out at this stage, not later.
The part we took off your hands. Palmnut is boiled until the flesh gives way, the same three hours it would take in your own kitchen.
Passed through fine sieves until only smooth base is left. No thickener is added to fake body. The fruit provides it.
Hot filled into tubs and sealed under FDA approved hygiene conditions, then kept cold until it leaves us.
What never goes in
Convenience food usually earns its shelf life with chemistry. Ours earns it with refrigeration. That is the trade we decided to make, and it is why every tub has to go into the fridge as soon as it reaches you.