Recipe: Appetizing Pounded yam & okro soup

Pounded yam & okro soup. Pounded Yam is a staple in many West African homes, but it is not usually eaten by itself, it is often paired with many delicious African soups, and stews like Egusi, okra soup, Jute leaves soup (Ewedu), or Stewed Spinach (Efo Riro). Whilst still on the stove top add the yam powder and mix it together using a wooden spoon. The pounded yam is ready when it.

Pounded yam is one of the best Nigeria swallows that I have seen so far, made with boiled white yam. Pounded yam is usually made by pounding as the name implies but these days a lot of people found it very difficult to pound, so they decided to use the powdered version as a quick alternative. Pounded yam in a simple definition is simply boiled white yam that has undergone the process of pounding. You can have Pounded yam & okro soup using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pounded yam & okro soup

1. Prepare of Okro fingers (200naira worth).
2. Prepare of Black pepper.
3. It's of big ball of Onion.
4. Prepare of Chicken (cooked).
5. You need of Goat meat (cooked).
6. Prepare of Crayfish.
7. Prepare of Ogu leave.
8. Prepare of Smoked fish.
9. Prepare of Dry fish.
10. You need of tuber of Yam.

There are other simple ways to achieve this recipe, people have been able to synthesis the process and taken away the "pounding". Pounded yam is a smooth dough of mashed yam often eaten with a vegetable soup or stew. It is much like mashed potatoes, but smoother, heavier, and tastier. It is a very popular West Africa.

Pounded yam & okro soup step by step

1. Wash the okro & chop it into any shape of choice. Place pot on heat with meat & it's stock & allow to boil..
2. Check the seasoning, now add palm oil, black pepper & washed crayfish & allow to cook.
3. Add chopped okro & washed/chopped leave at the same time. Add smoked fish in pieces, allow for 3 mins & turn off heat.
4. For pounded yam, peel a tuber of yam, wash & cut into preferred sizes. Place pot with water on heat. When it's hot add washed yam & ensure the water isn't drowning the yam..
5. When yam is soft, wash mortar, put yam inside & pound or use a food processor if you have one. If it's too hard add a little hot water to your preferred consistency & serve as above... Enjoy!.

It also provides good amounts of fiber, potassium, manganese, and metabolic B vitamins. Pounded Yam is one of the most loved Nigerian fufu meals. When it comes to fufu meals, Pounded Yam and Egusi Soup or Pounded Yam and Nsala Soup are favourite combos. But to pound the yam the traditional way with mortar and pestle takes a lot of energy and sweat. But your blender is here to rescue you from all that hard work.