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Yam Porridge

Yam porridge cooked in the pressure cooker with fresh blended peppers, liver, smoked fish and vegetables, thickened with a few blended pieces of yam.

Video

Original video: watch on YouTube

Ingredients

20 items

  • Yam (diced into cubes)
  • Tomatoes
  • Tatashe (red bell pepper)
  • Sombo
  • Rodo (scotch bonnet)
  • Onions
  • Liver
  • Fish (smoked fish)
  • Holy Spirit spice (Rayo's own spice blend)
  • Fish seasoning
  • Herbs and spicy salt
  • "Go" paste (the name is unclear in the summary)
  • "Green" paste (the name is unclear in the summary)
  • Groundnut oil
  • Palm oil
  • Salt
  • Hot water
  • Crayfish
  • Efo (leafy vegetables)
  • Efirin (scent leaf)

Instructions

8 steps

  1. Blend the tomatoes, tatashe, sombo, onions and rodo.
  2. Clean the liver: soak it in hot water and rinse repeatedly until all the blood is gone.
  3. Put the diced yam, salt and diced onions in the pressure cooker. Add hot water so the yam is submerged.
  4. Cook on the rice setting for 8 minutes, then let the pressure release.
  5. Add the blended pepper mix, the spices (Holy Spirit spice, fish seasoning, herbs and spicy salt), the pastes, fish, liver, groundnut oil and palm oil.
  6. Cook on the rice function for 5 minutes.
  7. Blend a few pieces of yam directly in the pot with a hand blender to thicken the porridge.
  8. Add the crayfish and vegetables, then close the lid and let the leftover steam soften the vegetables without turning the heat back on.
Start cooking

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