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The ingredients needed to cook Yam Porridge:
- Use Yam tuber
- Use Salt (to taste)
- Prepare Pepper (to taste)
- Prepare Stockfish
- You need Red palm oil (to colour)
- Provide Fresh green vegetable (For example; Ugu)
- Prepare Beef(optional)
- Provide 1 smoked fish/dry fish
- Use 1 tablespoon ground crayfish
- Prepare Habanero or Chilli pepper (to taste)
- You need 2 big stock cubes
- Use 1 medium onion
Instructions to make Yam Porridge:
- Wash the beef,spice it with salt,pepper,onion,stock cube(I used Maggi here). Add the Stockfish for that special flavor.
- When the beef is cooked,place it on a chopping board and cut it into desired size.
- Peel and cut the yam tuber into medium sizes. Wash and then place in a sizable pot. HINT; the smaller the yam cubes the faster it cooks.
- Wash and cut the onions into tiny pieces. Grind or blend the chilli pepper (your choice) and set aside.
- If you’re using dry fish, here is where you soak and pick the bones.
- Add enough water to cover the yam cubes and start cooking at medium to high heat. Now is the best time to add the dry fish if you’re making use of it.
- After the yam has boiled for a while, add the onions, ground crayfish, pepper, stock cubes, palm oil and the smoked fish. (Then add the stock from the beef)
- Add salt to taste and stir very well. Cook at high heat for about 5 minutes, add the chopped the beef now.
- Add the green vegetable(chopped and washed thoroughly), stir and leave to stand for few minutes then serve.
Yam porridge or Asaro is another delicious Nigerian yam dish cooked in a well-seasoned pepper mix until soft and fluffy with some yam chunks. It is very quick and easy to make. It makes a perfect dinner or lunch and it is also a party favourite. Porridge yam is a one pot meal that is prepared with white or yellow yams or any starchy tuber (cocoyam, plantains, cassava, potatoes); However, when you use a different starch, it takes the name of the starchy tuber. Just like porridge plantains Asaro is a special type of mashed yam porridge done by the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
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