RECIPE: YAM AND SWEET POTATOES PORRIDGE

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Yam lovers need to give this a trial!

This recipe combines Yam and potatoes for porridge with fish and vegetables!

Yam porridge or Yam pottage is a very delicious yam recipe. Yam porridge can be prepared with potatoes, plantain, or even beans.

Yam porridge is quite popular, we have different ways of cooking yam porridge in Nigeria. This recipe post is another method to prepare Yam and sweet potatoes porridge. 

Sweet potatoes have a mild, starchy, sweet flavor. Therefore, Yam and potatoes are a good combination for a tasty, yummy, and mouth-watering meal! 😉. To enrich your porridge, you can add fish, prawns, crayfish, and more. 


What you need

  • Yam
  • Potatoes
  • Red Bell Pepper, habanero & Tomatoes
  • Onion 
  • Fresh Palm oil
  • Salt and seasonings
  • Fish and crayfish
  • Vegetable ( ugwu or spinach or scent leaves)

NOTE: The quantity of the potatoes depends on how sweet you want your porridge to taste.

All of these are important in giving you a tasty porridge. The pepper and tomatoes need to be blended for the pepper mix. Onions bring out the flavor in food, You need onion for the pepper mix and the porridge. Palm oil gives the meal an attractive color. Fish and crayfish to spice the meal.  Lastly, vegetables will add color and a leafy taste to the meal. Salt and seasonings will be added for taste.

How to Prepare Yam Porridge

1. Peel and cut and rinse the yam. The yam should be in medium-sized chunks.

2. Peel and cut and rinse your potatoes 

3. Blend your pepper mix. ( Tomatoes, bell pepper, and habanero) 

4. Put the first yams inside a pot, and then add the pepper mix, salt, and seasonings.

5. Add water. Cover and let it cook for 10 - 12 minutes on medium to high heat.

6.  Add the Palm oil, sliced onions, and crayfish and stir. cover again and let it cook for an extra 10 minutes.

7. Mash the cooked yam. Mash the yam on how you want the texture of your porridge to be.

8. Add the fish and any other things  you want to add, this depends on how you want to enrich your yam porridge

9. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.

10.  Add the vegetable of your choice.


Enjoy your tasty Yam and potato porridge while it's hot!


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