Recipe: Tasty Ukwa(breadfruit porridge)
Recipe: Tasty Ukwa(breadfruit porridge) Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Ukwa(breadfruit porridge). Africana breadfruit porridge (ukwa) is among my mum's favourite dishes although I tweaked the recipe a little bit by excluding bitter leaves and corn. The breadfruit porridge looks so colourful and delicious, but I knew it was missing out two important things; washed bitter leaves and sweetcorn! African breadfruit porridge, Ukwa porridge has a delicate but muted sweetness, a flavour peculiar to it.
African breadfruit is in a food class of its own.
I was not sure where to put it but finally settled for beans section because breadfruit seeds are most similar to beans.
It is known as Ukwa in Igbo and the scientific name is Treculia africana.
You can have Ukwa(breadfruit porridge) using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Ukwa(breadfruit porridge)
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Prepare 4 cups of ukwa.
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You need 1 of medium dry fish.
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You need 1 tablespoon of pepper.
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It’s 1 cube of maggi.
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Prepare 1 of soup spoon of oil.
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It’s to taste of salt.
How to Prepare Breadfruit Porridge [Video] Ukwa is such a versatile food with a natural delicious.
Breadfruit can be eaten in a number of ways.
Ingredients you need for ukwa: Freshly peeled ukwa or dried ukwa can be used for this recipe.
Ukwa could be cooked with potash, eaten like that or separated from the water for just the seeds to be mashed.
Ukwa(breadfruit porridge) instructions
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Put some water on fire till it boils then pour in the ukwa (learnt recently that allowing the water to boil makes the ukwa cook faster).
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While the ukwa is cooking, wash your fish and keep.
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Once the ukwa becomes soft, add all your ingredients and allow to dry out a bit depends on how you like your porridge..
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Once cooked, bring it down from the fire and you are ready to eat.
Popular amongst the Igbos African breadfruit is a naturally delicious food and can be.
Breadfruit is either eaten fresh cooked and when cooking smells like fresh baked bread.
Breadfruit seeds are cooked similar to beans.
Breadfruit goes by many names in Africa, blèfoutou or yovotévi in Bénin, afon in the Yoruba language, bafafuta in Hausa and Ukwa in Igbo.
Simple Ukwa African breadfruit porridge is easy to make as side dish or a main meal.
