Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, cocoyam soup #abjmom #myhubfav. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav is something which I have loved my whole life.
Cocoyam is a tropical starchy tuberous root crop. See recipes for Ofe Nsala w/ Chicken, Cocoyam Soup too. If you've gotten your hands on fresh oha leaves, make a pot of oha soup. This Nigerian specialty is thickened with cocoyam paste and seasoned with smoked fish, dried shrimp, and your favorite meats.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cocoyam soup #abjmom #myhubfav using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cocoyam soup
#abjmom #MyHubFav:
- Get Cocoyam
- Take Catfish
- Take Pepper
- Get Palm oil
- Prepare Maggi
- Prepare Salt
- Take Semovita
Cocoyams can also be processed into various food products used for industrial and culinary purposes. Africans usually blend cocoyam and use it as a thickener for baking and cooking soups such as oha soup and bitter leaf soup etc. The thickening ability of oat paste is much more than that of cocoyam paste so use this Quaker Oats paste sparingly so that your soup will not be mushy, what we call gbudu-gbudu in Igbo language. This is when your Bitterleaf Soup or Ora Soup is filled with cocoyam instead of having the right balance of cocoyam and bitterleaves.
Instructions to make Cocoyam soup
#abjmom #MyHubFav:
- Wash cat fish well. Cook and set aside. Any meat of your choice can also be used.
- Wash and cook cocoyam. When it is soft, put down from heat, peel the back, pour mortar and pound to smooth paste.
- In a pot pour water enough for the soup, pepper and allow to boil. Add palm oil then cut cocoyam in little at a time with your hand. Allow to boil. Use back of spoon to press the cocoyam to smooth paste till you have smooth purée
- Add maggi and salt to taste. The fish comes in last.
- Prepare semovita or any ball food of your choice.
The thickening ability of oat paste is much more than that of cocoyam paste so use this Quaker Oats paste sparingly so that your soup will not be mushy, what we call gbudu-gbudu in Igbo language. This is when your Bitterleaf Soup or Ora Soup is filled with cocoyam instead of having the right balance of cocoyam and bitterleaves. When cooking Nigerian soups in which we use pastes as thickeners, we usually boil the cocoyam corms (for Bitterleaf Soup, Ora (Oha) Soup) or pieces of white puna yam (for Nsala (White) Soup), then pound them into a paste before adding to the pot of soup. But what if you live in a place where you cannot buy cocoyam corms or tubers of puna yam? As a relatively known staple crop in the underdeveloped and developing countries, it can serve as a weaning food and its own leaves are sometimes used as vegetable for cooking.
Foods That Can Make Your Mood Better
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So you see, you don’t need to eat all that junk food when you wish to feel better! Test out these suggestions instead!
