Yam Porridge Recipe (VIDEO)

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Yam Porridge Recipe (VIDEO)

Experience the comfort of home-cooked food with our Yam Porridge recipe. Made with yams, sweet potatoes, and plantains, it's a hearty and satisfying dish.

Prep Time10

Cook Time45

Total Time55

Course: Side Dish, Soup

Cuisine: African, Nigerian

Keyword: delicious yam porridge recipe, easy porridge, easy yam porridge recipe, fruit and vegetable porridge, healthy porridge, Homemade yam porridge

Servings:

Calories: 494kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

For the sauce

1 red bell pepper
1 sweet pepper
1 scotch bonnet (optional)
½ red onion (medium-sized)

For the porridge

1 puna yam (medium-sized)
1 ripe plantain (medium-sized)
2 sweet potatoes (medium-sized)
10 cups baby spinach
1 mackerel (boiled or smoked)
1 cup mackerel liquid stock
½ cup palm oil (or sunflower oil)
2 cubes chicken stock
1 tsp sea salt

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Instructions

Prepare the ingredients.

Peel and slice the yam into big pieces.
Submerge them in a bowl of water.
Do the same for the sweet potatoes. Peel and cut the plantains.
Transfer them into bowls.

Cook the mackerel.

Clean, rinse, and slice the mackerel into 4 pieces.
Place it in a pot and cook over medium heat.
Season it with salt, stock cubes, and mixed herbs.
Add water and cook for 5 to 7 minutes.
Set the stock aside for later use. Once cooled, debone and break the mackerel into chunks.

Make the pepper sauce.

Rinse, slice, and blend the red bell pepper, sweet pepper, scotch bonnet, and red onion until smooth.
Set this aside.

Cook the porridge.

Combine the carrots, plantain, yam, onion, and pepper sauce in a pot.
Pour a cup of water into the blender and rinse it out.
Add the mackerel liquid stock or any other stock of your choice. Cover it with a lid.
Allow it to cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.
Add the palm oil, chicken stock cubes, and sea salt, and stir gently.
Let it cook for another 10 to minutes over low heat.
Then, incorporate the chopped baby spinach, depending on your preferred quantity.
Add chunks of the deboned mackerel or any other topping you prefer.
Cover it with a lid and cook for 2 more minutes.
Serve with any stew of your choice for added taste!

Video

Notes

Serve this with stew to balance the flavors.
Purchase and store quality fresh ingredients for an aromatic and healthy dish.

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