How to Cook Tasty Yam and ripe plantain pottage

Yam and ripe plantain pottage. Ripe Plantain Pottage is a very popular pottage dish, particularly in West Africa. I'm really not a fan of squishy foods so I tend to stay way from all things squishy pottage, even the popular yam pottage. Recently, a friend, Arit Okpo, posted a lovely photo of Goat Meat Plantain Pottage on Instagram and.

After peeling the yam, wash it and put it inside the pot thereafter add the ripe plantain immediately den make sure you add your onions, tomato paste, grounded pepper, and the seasoning leave it to get cooked and done.well if you want to garnish it. Unlike with yam pottage, you won't have to mash this at all. That's a DK secret right there. You can cook Yam and ripe plantain pottage using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Yam and ripe plantain pottage

1. You need Half of cup of palm oil.
2. Prepare Half of bulb of Onion.
3. You need 3 of red chilli (shombo).
4. It's 6 of red habanero pepper.
5. It's 1 of knorr cube.
6. It's 1 of dry fish.
7. You need Half of tuber of a medium sized yam.
8. Prepare 3 of large ripe plantain (strong).
9. It's 2 tablespoon of blended crayfish.
10. You need Half of bunch of green amaranth.
11. It's to taste of Salt.

Learn how to prepare this iron-rich dish of plantain pottage with unripe plantain, fish and scent leaves. I'm not sure where the recipe for plantain pottage originated, but this dish is common in Nigeria. From the use of ground crayfish as a seasoning to the use of palm oil, the recipe is very local. Yam Porridge with plantain is an incredibly rich and tasty one pot meal, and as the name implies the recipe is basically made with porridge and plantains, seasoned with salt and fortified with I need to mention that this recipe is also known other aliases like Yam pottage or Asaro in my traditional dialect.

Yam and ripe plantain pottage instructions

1. Blend your pepper, chop the Onion then set aside.
2. Next, peel and cut the yam and plantain into your desired size and shape.
3. Set your cooking pot on fire then add the palm oil, heat for few minutes at this point add the Onion and sauté.
4. Next, red chilli (shombo) add the blended pepper mix, fry for three minutes, season with the knorr cube then add about a litre of water to the pot, add the already peeled yam then cover to start cooking, cook for three minutes then add the plantain, and dry fish then continue to cook.
5. Add the blended crayfish the taste and adjust the taste with salt, cook till it's almost thickened then add the green amaranth leaf, stir and cook for few minutes, by now it must have thickened.
6. Stir and bring down then serve.
7. Add the bleeee.

I am making today's beans and yam plantain pottage the way I was taught. This meal (unripe plantain pottage) is very rich in iron and highly recommended for diabetic patients. If you are searching for Nigerian foods for diabetic Oh, I forgot to finish a sentence I stated above, that unripe plantain is very rich in iron but once it is ripe, it becomes carbohydrate and no more safe for. Soak and wash the fish with hot water, peel and dice plantain. In a clean pot, add.diced plantain(both ripe and unripe), add water, washed fish, diced onion, bonga fish powder, crayfish, seasoning cubes, salt,pepper and.