kinah:
Foodies
Good afternoon
Don't mind my boring story Pls.
Am a Yoruba lady, HUB yoruba.
We are both adventurous with food esp soups. HUB during his service years toured around Nigeria abit,
To the main issue
I Av perfected edikaikong
I want to start cooking other soups recipe.
But we will eventually purge o after my experiments .eg the bitter leaf soup.(ofe onugbu) I cooked last Week. We purge sotey. Hmmmm
Even egusi soup. But I eat in people's houses and I don't purge.
My next experiment is ofe nsala
Pls can u tell me what am not doing right?

Thanks in advance

BlueRayDick:
Immediately I saw that Àsaro posted by Akposy, my mind just dey tell my brain say I must chop àsaro today, it have tayed I last had one.

So I had to dash out and get ugwu leaves which I feel is the last ingredient that crowns a nourishing yam porridge.

Required : Yam, diced ponmo, dried prawns, smoked fish, palm oil, chopped ugwu leaves, seasoning, roughly blended tomatoes and pepper onions, and salt to taste.

Process: I followed a video I once watched on YouTube. So I started by heating the palm oil for few minutes and added onions to it. The roughly blended pepper was added to the mix after which I allowed it to fry for about 3 mins on medium heat before adding seasoning cubes( I used knorr chicken)

Then I added the yam to the stew on fire along with the dried prawn, diced ponmo and smoked fish to the mix. Immidiately, I added just enough water to cook the yam and added salt to taste.

I allowed it to cook for 14 minutes and checked to see it was done, so I added the already washed chopped ugwu leaves and allowed it to simmer for 2 minutes before stirring every every together. I took it off the fire after 2 more minutes and served.

Lunch is served

Akposy:
Asaro (Yam porridge)

Plead:


You don’t have Gcam?

Leesah:

Beautiful and inviting. Yam is very expensive here if not I'd have made this. Been craving for it since last week that I had to trek for almost 20mins to the house of the person selling yam only for him to show me one rejected yam for 600. I really miss my mum place because of things like this. Cheap and easy to get

BlueRayDick:


What part of Nigeria is Yam expensive? There's yam almost everywhere in Lagos now; you see Hausa guys hawking it with wheel barrow here and there

Leesah:

Is it not this PH. Can't get yam, tomatoes is expensive, meat is worse since this lockdown. The person selling sales stale meat and sometimes when you put inside water, the water becomes green. I sincerely can't wait for all this to be over

Akposy:


Okay. Let's start with this

Kindly tell me what you noticed among the two pics. They were taken with the same phone

Mariangeles:


That purging is a natural process.
If leafy vegetables are not part of your regular diet, it is likely to happen when you eat them. Especially fluted pumpkin and bitter leaves.
It is a detoxification process, which eventually stops when your system is cleansed enough and gets used to the vegetables.
Let the purging not stop you. It is good for you if your vegetables are thoroughly washed.

Soaking your vegetables in salt water for some few minutes before washing helps a lot too.

Thanks for your input. I so appreciate it

BlueRayDick:


Your story is not boring, it's actually funny ( especially the purging part )

I believe the issue might have to do with hygiene. It might just be flies perching on any of the ingredients u used or something.

shilz:
you can try the bitterleaf again but this time check your seasoning and hygiene ,if possible get fresh bitter leaf boil or wash them yourself before use.bitter leaf does alot help to the tummy. For the egusi instead of ugwu leaf replace with uziza,bitterleaf or okazi.very little utazi leaf can be added too.dont forget to watch your seasoning.

cococandy:


I’m loving your new style these days. So much like dark background. Kudos

Torie8:
The first picture seems to look more garnished than the second picture

Leesah:

Wayoooo! Ga kwanu na

BlueRayDick:
Immediately I saw that Àsaro posted by Akposy, my mind just dey tell my brain say I must chop àsaro today, it have tayed I last had one.

So I had to dash out and get ugwu leaves which I feel is the last ingredient that crowns a nourishing yam porridge.

Required : Yam, diced ponmo, dried prawns, smoked fish, palm oil, chopped ugwu leaves, seasoning, roughly blended tomatoes and pepper onions, and salt to taste.

Process: I followed a video I once watched on YouTube. So I started by heating the palm oil for few minutes and added onions to it. The roughly blended pepper was added to the mix after which I allowed it to fry for about 3 mins on medium heat before adding seasoning cubes( I used knorr chicken)

Then I added the yam to the stew on fire along with the dried prawn, diced ponmo and smoked fish to the mix. Immidiately, I added just enough water to cook the yam and added salt to taste.

I allowed it to cook for 14 minutes and checked to see it was done, so I added the already washed chopped ugwu leaves and allowed it to simmer for 2 minutes before stirring every every together. I took it off the fire after 2 more minutes and served.

Lunch is served

Plead:
Dinner. Offo soup

First picture edited with Snapseed..
Second picture edited with vivid (iPhone editing feature)

Cc; akposy

budaatum:

I'm in UK because I fell ill in Nigeria while trying to fix my village, Nigeria being far too big for my puny might.

Schistosomiasis (though some say it was village people), paralysed me from the waist down and almost killed me and the NHS put me back almost together again after village people killed all my investments in us.

Akposy:

Thanks. I'm experimenting


Yes. It was enhanced


Walahi Ba na jin hausa wella


You kan garnish am pass me. Na just yam and spinach i use. How was the taste. Once this is over (lockdown), I plan on making a unique Asaro .

Also, I don't use that fry method. I just add the oil to the cooked yam and do the needful


Yeah. You will get better. What is offo soup

Munzy14:

Duck goes well with chinese...Even here in Nigeria they don't joke with duck and pork that could be the reason y he asked.

Munzy14:

This is awesome!

Mariangeles:

Healthy

BlueRayDick:


You are weird. Just accept it.

From Dangote spaghetti to unripe mango

BlueRayDick:


Well, I mostly like garnishing food like àsaro, beans, spaghetti and noodles....If I don't I will lose interest after two, three spoons.

kinah:


Thanks I appreciate
Funny thing is despite purging we don't back off. As per hygiene I want to believe it is from where I purchase my ingredients. Will work on that


Seasoning? Am team natural spice o. Even if I will use seasoning a cube
I use more of ogiri, Iru when cooking my soup
Thanks for the input

Leesah:

Is it not this PH. Can't get yam, tomatoes is expensive, meat is worse since this lockdown. The person selling sales stale meat and sometimes when you put inside water, the water becomes green. I sincerely can't wait for all this to be over

budaatum:

Austerity na! Reduced pay during lockdown and lots of village people to consider.

Leesah:

Is it not this PH. Can't get yam, tomatoes is expensive, meat is worse since this lockdown. The person selling sales stale meat and sometimes when you put inside water, the water becomes green. I sincerely can't wait for all this to be over

GboyegaD:
Dinner:
Amala with Efo Riro, Ogbono, Beef, and Chicken.

Akposy:

Thanks. I'm experimenting


Yes. It was enhanced


Walahi Ba na jin hausa wella


You kan garnish am pass me. Na just yam and spinach i use. How was the taste. Once this is over (lockdown), I plan on making a unique Asaro .

Also, I don't use that fry method. I just add the oil to the cooked yam and do the needful


Yeah. You will get better. What is offo soup

payperpost:

Nigeria is the only oil producing country the citizens have to beg for alms online during covid19 lockdown because the government is doing little or nothing for tax payers

Ishilove:

Still yet, this is just too austere

pocohantas:


Nahhh. I’m perfect, every other person is the problem.



I like garnishing too, but would most likely stop at dried fish for yam. I am not a fan of mixed meals. Rice and beans, asaro, beans and yam...etc.

I have leftover ugu from my okra soup, I might make sauce with it tomorrow morning. Hope it is still good sef.

Your asaro looks really good!!

MariamAlheri:


You're so right about the meat being stale these days.

My experience this very evening: I sent someone to buy me goat meat from the market here and he came back with the pictures below. I'm sad cos my money is wasted.

Is this not how Coronavirus even started? The goat they slaughtered to sell to innocent buyers is obviously diseased!

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