3 Delicious Ways To Make Fufu
If you grow up as a farmer and grow cassava, it is likely that you will know how to make Fufu.
Fufu is one of such swallow food in Nigeria that is made from Cassava. If you don’t enjoy it the first time, I bet you, by the second time, you will be asking for more
Although, it may have a sour and smooth feeling in your mouth, yet it is a heavenly feeling.
Saying that a Cassava farmer should typically know how to make Fufu doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
With a little bit of curiosity, the seemingly complex process of preparing Fufu will be shattered.
It is possible to hear people say that they will rather purchase Fufu that bothers about how to make Fufu.
Did you know that you can prepare your Fufu from cassava or cassava powder and do all that at home?
This is actually a great news. In fact, Fufu also has other varieties.
Those varieties are not prepared with cassava but other edibles like plantain, potato, carrots, garden egg etc.
This is a big plus every fufu lovers like myself.
Below, you will learn how to make Fufu using different recipes to get different and amazing flavours of Fufu.
How to Make Fufu: Recipe 1
This is the Cassava type of Fufu
Ingredients
Fresh cassava tubers
Bicarbonate soda (this is to speed up fermentation process).
How to Make Fufu: Preparation
This method is for those that want to prepare the Fufu immediately.
Wash the cassava tubers properly. Cut them into big each sizes (lumps). Peel of the skin.
Cut into smaller cubes. Pour into a bowl or container wide enough to take it. Pour water into it.
Add bicarbonate soda. Cover and allow it soak for 4 days.
After the 4 days, pour the water away.
Pour the cassava inside a blender or food processor.
Add a little water. Blend smooth till it becomes paste-like substance.
Start removing the fibre (strands) with your hand. The fibres are not good for preparing it.
Keep checking until you can’t feel any with your hands again.
You can also pass it through a straightener, add little water and check for many fibres.
Get light loose clothes. Pour the paste inside.
Tie it up, and squeeze with your hands to remove all the excess liquid.
Don’t squeeze it all out. You still need it moist.
Get a pot and pour the paste into it. Use your hand to check for any fibre. Pour a little water into it. Cover the pot and allow it cook for 4 minutes.
Start stirring once you open the cover.
Stir everything from the lower part to the upper parts and side to side.
Just make sure you stir and not one side is left out. (This helps prevents any form of lumps).
You will notice the colour begins to change as well.
And it becomes harder. Try as much as possible to keep stirring.
You can add a little water to help reduce the hardness.
Stir and stir again. Add little water and stir again.
You have to keep stirring. Add water again the third time and stir until the colours changes.
Once the colour has changed totally. The cassava Fufu is ready.
You can serve with any stew or soup of your choice like Ewedu, Egusi, vegetable, etc.
How to Make Fufu: From Cassava flour
This is a very short and easy method for those who might feel the first method is strenuous.
You can also use cassava flour to prepare it and still achieve the same taste.
Ingredients
Cassava flour
Water
Pour 5 cups of water inside a pot on a low medium heat.
Add 5½ cups of cassava flour into it. Begin to stir immediately to prevent any form of lumps.
Continue stirring it until it thickens.
Yes, your meal is ready.
How to Make Fufu: Plantain Fufu.
Like I mentioned earlier, this is an alternative to cassava Fufu.
I am sure you will like this.
For this recipe, I will share 3 different methods of preparing it
Ingredients
Unripe plantain (you can also use the ripe one but it will be too sweet)
How to Make Fufu: Preparation of Plantain Fufu
Wash the plantain very well before cutting. Cut into big lumps and peel the skin off.
Cut into smaller cubes. Pour into a pot and cook until it is soft. Test by crushing with a spoon.
Method 1 (Blender)
Pour a little-boiled plantain into the blender, add a little water and blend.
Add a little more plantain and blend more until smooth.
Add a little water again. It will become hard once it cools off.
Pour water into a small ball. Get a serving spoon, dip inside the water and begin to scoop into your plate directly or inside a plastic nylon.
Do same for rest
Method 2 (Food Processor)
Pour a little-boiled plantain into the food processor, add a little water allow it process a little.
Add some more along with a little water. Let it process till it becomes very smooth and soft.
Get a small bowl with a little water. Dip a serving spoon inside and serve into your plate or into nylon.
Method 3 (Mortar)
Pour a little-boiled plantain into your already washed mortar with pestle. Pound a little and a little water.
Add more plantain, add a little water. Begin to pound from upwards to downwards and sideways.
How to Make Fufu: Potato Fufu
This is another alternative to the other varieties of Fufu that I mentioned earlier.
It is certain that you would sing while eating this.
Ingredients
Irish potato – 6
Plain flour (to increase the starch) 3 cups
Hot water – 3 cups
How to Make Fufu: Preparation of Potato Fufu
Peel the skin off the potato. Cut into small cubes. Wash and clean properly.
Transfer into a pot and cook on a low medium heat for 17 minutes.
Ina small bowl, pour hot water into the flour and knead together. Cut into a small ball and set it aside.
Once the potato is done for 15 minutes, put the balls into the pot gently.
Allow it cook for another 8 minutes.
Method 1 (food processor).
Pour a little-boiled potato and boiled flour balls into a processor.
Allow it to process a little, add more and process until it’s smooth. Do same for remaining.
Get a small bowl with a little water, dip a serving spoon inside the water.
Scoop into the plate or thin film (nylon).
Method 2
Pour a little-boiled potato together with the flour, blend and add a little more. Serve it the same way as explained in method 1