This recipe was a rainy (weekend) morning staple at home; nice, hot and spicy. Simple, healthy and medicinal because of the spices used. It's also a traditional meal for new mothers as it is believed to break residual blood clots and cleanse the system. Haven't had this in nearly 10 years and this was actually my first time making it, if i could fool an ibo food pro, then so can you...
Yam
Dried fish
Uda
Alligator pepper
Efura (ehuru)
Crayfish
Onions
Scent leaf
Salt & pepper
I'll start with introductions, on the bowl we have our dried fish (that we all know) and on the saucer we have alligator pepper (the brown rough pod), uda (the bead-like black bunch) and the 2 little bean like items are the efura.
Roast the efura on an open flame until it blackens and releases a nice aroma. Rinse the uda and alligator pepper and pound together with the efura in a mortar or blitz roughly in the dry mill part of your blender.
Blend crayfish, 1 onion and crayfish together and set aside.
Peel and cut yam into pieces and put in a pot with water just covering the yam. Pour in all the other ingredients except scent leaf and cook until yam is soft.
Rinse and cut scent leaf and add to the pot, allow to cook for another minute. This would be enough time for the scent leaf to release its flavour.
Serve and enjoy!
I like to take my yam out of the peppersoup and eat it with some palm oil.
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I can do mumu for food sha. This I shall think about so I can dream about it.
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