How to Cook Concoction Tasty Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam

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This soup is native to the 'Igbos' of Eastern Nigeria. Hi Guys Welcome back to Ewaleifoh family Tv, In this video we be eating POUNDED YAM 🍠 and BITTER LEAF SOUP 🍲. please guys support me. Cocoa-yam (pounded) Half cup ofor (alternative. You can have Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam

1. It's 1/2 of Tuber Yam.
2. It's 3 of Stock fish and smoked fish (softened in hot water).
3. It's of Precooked Assorted meat (Beef/goat chunks, shaki, snails etc).
4. Prepare 1/4 cup of ground crayfish.
5. Prepare 6 of small cocoyams (peeled and washed).
6. It's 1/2 Cup of washed Bitter leaf(dried/fresh).
7. Prepare 1 Tbs of dry pepper.
8. You need 1/2 of Palm Oil.
9. It's of Ogiri.
10. It's of Salt.
11. It's of Maggi.

Pounded yam in Nigeria is not served as a course meal but paired with a plate of Nigerian soups, it goes best with egusi or bitter leaf soup. Pounded yam is a type of swallow in Nigeria. Other swallows include eba, fuff, and tuwo shinkafa. I am yet to figure out a way to preserve this food over twenty-four hours.

Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam step by step

1. Wash assorted meat thoroughly with boiled water and parboil with onions and maggi for 10 minutes. You can continue cooking until it is soft enough for consumption..
2. Cook the cocoa-yam until it is soft; peel off the back and pound with a mortar and pestle until you have something soft and seedless then set aside..
3. Use hot water to soak the dried fish and stockfish separately for a minute and wash thoroughly, then set aside..
4. Now wash the bitter leaves until the bitter taste is washed off and set aside..
5. Add a teaspoon of salt (or according to how you consume salt), the washed dried fish, stockfish,Ogiri and crayfish/pepper to the boiling meat in the pot.
6. Then add the palm oil, stir and allow to boil for 10 to 20 minutes..
7. As the meat, fish, and stockfish boil together add the soft pounded cocoa-yam and allow to dissolve..
8. Add the bitter leaves, maggi and more salt (optional) to taste then cover and cook for five minutes..
9. Ur soup is ready, enjoy with pounded yam or any swallow of choice.

Cocoyam adds its own taste to Bitterleaf Soup and Ora Soup the same way that yam adds a unique state to Nsala Soup but if you can't find cocoyam or yam flour, the closest I have used is Quaker Oats Flour. Cover the pot and leave to cook on high heat till all the cocoyam lumps have dissolved. You can add more water if you feel that the soup is too thick. Add salt to taste and the soup is ready Serve with Garri (Eba), Semolina Fufu, Amala, Cassava Fufu or Pounded Yam. The bitter leaf soup is well enjoyed when paired with pounded yam (fufu).

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