Recipe: Appetizing Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav

Mittie Lowe
Recipe
Share on Tumblr
Share on Pinterest
Share on WhatsApp
Recipe: Appetizing Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav
Page content

Recipe: Appetizing Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav. Cocoyam is a tropical starchy tuberous root crop. There are many varieties of cocoyam but the most common are the soft variety used mainly as soup thickeners and the yam-like variety that can be boiled in a short time and eaten with pepper sauce. Rinse and pull the oha leaves from the stems.

Cocoyam, a tuber crop similar to yam, can also be used to make mouth-watering Nigerian food recipes where the cocoyam is mainly grated, boiled or pounded.

Cocoyam soup is a special type that is prepared with edible cocoyam powder or fresh cocoyam.

It is one of the soups adored by Igbos and majorly prepared on special occasions.

You can have Cocoyam soup #abjmom #MyHubFav using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cocoyam soup

#abjmom #MyHubFav

  1. Prepare of Cocoyam.

  2. Prepare of Catfish.

  3. Prepare of Pepper.

  4. Prepare of Palm oil.

  5. It’s of Maggi.

  6. You need of Salt.

  7. It’s of Semovita.

Cocoyam powder can be used to prepare bitter leaves, oha or acts as a thickener to other ethnic soups.

See recipes for Ofe Nsala w/ Chicken, Cocoyam Soup too.

As a continuation of the flours that make the best alternative to cocoyam in Nigerian soups, I bring to you the results of testing Quaker Oats as alternative to cocoyam when preparing Nigerian soups (Bitterleaf Soup and Ora Soup) that require the use of cocoyam as thickener.

I have actually done this test a long time ago and have been using it as alternative but completely forgot about posting.

Cocoyam soup

#abjmom #MyHubFav instructions

  1. Wash cat fish well. Cook and set aside. Any meat of your choice can also be used..

  2. Wash and cook cocoyam. When it is soft, put down from heat, peel the back, pour mortar and pound to smooth paste..

  3. In a pot pour water enough for the soup, pepper and allow to boil. Add palm oil then cut cocoyam in little at a time with your hand. Allow to boil. Use back of spoon to press the cocoyam to smooth paste till you have smooth purée.

  4. Add maggi and salt to taste. The fish comes in last..

  5. Prepare semovita or any ball food of your choice..

Thannks for the soup recipe, can i prepare the soup without adding Achi, cocoyam or ufo because am Yoruba.

Hi.tnx alot for d recipe.jus got to knw abt dis platform today n i ve learnt abt d method of cookin bitterleaf soup.pls keep postin more n God ill reward u for wat u are doin.tnx alot.

Cocoyam can be consumed in different ways through roasting, cooking, frying, baking, pounding and milling etc.

Cocoyams can also be processed into various food products used for industrial and culinary purposes.

Africans usually blend cocoyam and use it as a thickener for baking and cooking soups such as oha soup and bitter leaf soup etc.