Pounded yam with Egusi soup🍛🍛🍛

Name: Pounded yam with Egusi soup🍛🍛🍛
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1 medium yam; Water; Salt; 5 tomatoes, 5 peppers and 1 big onion(Grated); 1 tin Grinded Egusi; 1 serving spoon each of palm oil and veg oil; 2 bunches spinach or ugwu washed and sliced; Washed and chopped spring onion; 1/2 tin Grinded cray fish; 30 pcs sliced and cooked pkomo; 8 pcs seasoning cubes; 1 tsp curry; 1 tsp ginger and garlic paste; 1 tsp salt

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Pounded yam with Egusi soup🍛🍛🍛

2 hearts❤️ cuisine @UmmuAneesa

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Ingredients

1 hr

4 people

1medium yam
Water
Salt
Egusi soup
5tomatoes, 5 peppers and 1 big onion(Grated)
1 tinGrinded Egusi
1 serving spooneach of palm oil and veg oil
2 bunchesspinach or ugwu washed and sliced
Washed and chopped spring onion
1/2 tinGrinded cray fish
30 pcssliced and cooked pkomo
8 pcsseasoning cubes
1 tspcurry
1 tspginger and garlic paste
1 tspsalt

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Steps

1 hr

1

Peel the yam, slice and wash and cook with water and salt till completely soft.
2

Using a mortar and pestle pound the yam till soft and sticky, sprinkling the yam water at intervals
3

Mould into desired shape and size..... Keep aside
4

For the soup
5

Mix the egusi with water to form a paste
6

Add the oil into the pot and fry the grinded pepper mix for 5mins, scoop out, add little oil and add the egusi mix gradually in ball
7

Fry for 3 mins, add the fried pepper mix and water, salt, pkomo, seasoning and curry
8

Allow to cook for 30 mins, add in the cray fish cook for 5 more mins then finally add ginger/garlic paste and sliced spinach and spring onion
9

Allow it to steam for 5 mins....ready to serve for lunch or dinner😋🤤