Nutritious Yam Porridge Recipe
It is hard to not highlight that Nigerian mothers have a way of making out amazing yam porridge recipe.
They have a peculiar and unique way of bringing out the best in any meal
One of those special meals that Nigerian mums create magic in a yam porridge recipe.
Wow! You need to start imagining the sweet and spicy aroma as you are reading this.
So far the yam porridge recipe is followed and prepared, you will definitely enjoy it. It’s a very tasty dish.
The beautiful part is that this meal has moved a rank higher from household meal to a celebrity meal.
Now, yam porridge is being served in occasions, restaurants, five-star hotels alongside foods like Jollof rice, fried rice and pounded yam etc.
Another thing is that you can actually prepare using other varieties like plantain, potato and beans porridge.
You can also garnish it with vegetables, dairy, beef or seafood.
There are lovely methods of preparing it. I will be sharing some yam porridge recipe that you should try. You will like it.
Yam Porridge Recipe 1
This is Yam porridge with pumpkin leaves.
Ingredients
Yam – 1 tuber (medium size)
Titus fish – 1 or 2
Crayfish – 3tsp
Red bell pepper (Tatahse) – 2
Scotch bonnet (rodo) – 3
Yellow pepper – 1
Tomato – 2
Onions – 2
Stock cube – 2
Salts to taste
Goat stock (beef or chicken or fish)
Curry – ½ tsp
Thyme – 1/2tsp
Vegetable oil or palm oil
Pumpkin leaves (ugwu) or any vegetable of your choice
Yam Porridge Recipe: Preparation
Wash and clean your Titus fish properly. Cut into 4 or 5 pieces. Add some seasoning to it.
Boil it for 3 minutes, debone and set aside.
Wash all your peppers and onions. Blend roughly and set aside.
Chop little onions and set aside
Heat pan, add vegetable oil, allow it fry for few seconds, Add onions.
Allow it fry for 2 minutes on a medium heat.
Add the blended pepper, crayfish, stock cube and salt to taste.
Stir together and allow it fry for few minutes. Add your boiled titus fish.
Stir together to combine for few minutes.
Wash the yam properly, cut into big lumps. Peel the skin. Cut into smaller cubes, wash thoroughly.
Add meat stock and a little water to the sauce, pour the yam inside.
Cover and allow it to cook for 30 minutes.
Mash it together with your spatula or spoon. Once it is done, add your pumpkin leaves and allow it to simmer for few minutes.
Yam Porridge Recipe 2
This is Yam and Plantain porridge
Ingredients
Yam – half tuber
Ripe plantain – 2 big ones ( as you desire)
Dry fish
Crayfish – 3tsp
Red bell pepper – 2
Scotch bonnet (rodo) – 2
Cameroon pepper – 1 tsp
Tomato – 2
Onions – 2
Stock cube – 2
Curry – ½ tsp
Thyme – ½ tsp
Salts to taste
Vegetable or palm oil
Beef stock
Yam Porridge Recipe: Preparation.
Wash and chop the pepper and onions. Set aside
Pour hot water into dry fish for some minutes. Wash and debone. Set aside in a bowl
Wash the yam. Cut into big lumps. Peel skin off. Cut into smaller cubes.
Wash very well. Pour into the pot.
Wash plantain before cutting and peeling the skin off. Cut the plantain into smaller cubes.
Pour the plantain into the same pot as yam. Add the pepper, crayfish, curry, thyme, Cameroon pepper and the beef stock and stir together.
Allow it cook for 15 minutes.
Add the seasoning cube, palm oil, dry fish and a little salt.
Allow it cook for 20 minutes. Stir and crush a bit.