Ngoo Served with Boiled Yam

Name: Ngoo Served with Boiled Yam
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup palm oil; 1 tsp akawu; to taste Salt; 4 fresh pepper; 1/2 medium onion; Grinded crayfish optional; Boiled yam to serve

Brenda Njemanze @grubskitchen

Nigeria

Ngoo is known as a paste used in making abacha and ugba in igboland and benin tribe call it Benin owoh. This paste can be use to enjoy roasted or boiled yam, roasted or boiled plantain and we a lot of fresh pepper and onions it taste super amazing 😋😋😋

Brenda Njemanze @grubskitchen

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Ingredients

10mins

3 servings

1/2 cuppalm oil
1 tspakawu
to tasteSalt
4fresh pepper
1/2medium onion
Grinded crayfish optional
Boiled yam to serve

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Steps

10mins

1

Mix akawu and little water in a small bowl and set it aside
2

Wash pepper and onion; dice in big chunks and place inside a mortar then pound till it’s shredded add little salt while pounding
3

In another bowl add oil and sieve in the akawu water into the oil and stir gently till its thickened and the paste changes its color to yellow
4

Add the pounded onions and pepper and salt to taste; serve along side boiled yam and enjoy your meal
5

Note: some like to warm the paste to get the fresh pepper and onion cooked abit remember once you heat it up the thickness of the ngoo goes away; for me I love the freshness of all the ingredients together

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Brenda Njemanze @grubskitchen

on October 26, 2018 07:08

Nigeria

I love to experiment base on what I can see in the kitchen; I walk into the kitchen blind and I come out with a plate of food. My kitchen is my laboratory and you can be my lab rat 😋😋😋. A foodie by day and A foodie by night. #Icookueat