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Pounded Yam & Vegetables from Nigeria
On December 30th 2018 (2 days after my birthday and two days before New Year’s Day) I had the delightful experience of eating a delicious & filling Yoruba dish called “efo inyan obe ila” (pounded yam with vegetable).
The meal was prepared by a Yoruba man who has been living in the US for years, but he hasn’t forgotten how to prepare native dishes.
- Ingredients – pounded yam flour; spinach, tomatoes, tomato paste, okra, onions, mushrooms, dried shrimp; plantains; chili pepper, sea salt; and beef. Note that you can use chicken instead of beef.
- Description of Ingredients and quantity needed.
- Preparation– Cut meat and onions for cooking as shown below!
- Put these in a large pot; add salt and water and set on stove! Then prepare the tomato paste as shown in the video below.
- Cut spinach, tomatoes, okra and mushrooms as shown in the video below!
- Add pepper, tomato paste, and a little bit of shrimp to the pot of meat as shown below!
- As you wait for the meat to cook you can make the okra soup and add tomatoes to the meat.
- Add salt and the remaining dried shrimp to the boiling okra and add the spinach and mushrooms to the pot with the meat s shown below!.
- Peel and fry the plantain until they are golden brown as shown below!
- You are now ready to make fufu (the pounded yam) as shown in the following video.
- Consummation – Put the okra soup in a dish, pour the meat sauce over it, and place the fufu and plantain in your plate. Eat with your fingers dipping the fufu in the sou or use a spoon if you like. Enjoy! It is even more heavenly when accompanied by a tall glass of sweet red wine.