Recipe: Yummy Yamarita

Inez Miller
Recipe
Share on Tumblr
Share on Pinterest
Share on WhatsApp
Recipe: Yummy Yamarita
Page content

Recipe: Yummy Yamarita Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Yamarita. Yamarita is loved by everyone in Nigeria, except you haven't yet tried it. Then this page is for you. Yamarita is plain boiled yam that is coated in egg, flour, ginger, garlic, and salt.

Most people serve yamarita with special dips or stews.

Unlike the regular fried yam, yamarita is a fried yam coated with egg-flour which makes it crunchy and sweeter.

Yamarita,also known as Dun Dun Oniyeri, is simply thinly sliced Par-boiled/blanched yams dipped into whisked egg+flour& fried until crispy.

You can cook Yamarita using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Yamarita

  1. Prepare of Yam.

  2. It’s of Eggs.

  3. Prepare of Flour.

  4. Prepare of Green pepper.

  5. Prepare of Red pepper.

  6. It’s of Onion.

  7. You need of Spring onion.

  8. It’s of Salt.

  9. You need of Maggi.

  10. You need of Curry.

  11. Prepare of Oil.

The difference between Yamarita and the common fried yams (dun dun) is the egg and flour mix, which takes this easy meal to another level.

It is so easy to prepare, that you can make it as a snack or quick meal.

You can make this in forty-five minutes.

I determined to serve with tomato stew.

Yamarita instructions

  1. Peel and cut yam into strips. Put some salt and cook until its halfway soft. Wash pepper and onion n dice..

  2. Pour sieved flour in a bowl add curry and maggi then mix. Crack eggs in a bowl..

  3. Pour chopped red,green pepper,onion and spring onion add seasonings and then whisk..

  4. Put cooked yam in egg mixture remove and then coat with flour then dip in egg again..

  5. Arrange the pepper on top..

  6. Deep fry in hot oil. Turn when golden remove when both sides are golden..

  7. 😋😋💃.

You also can help with egg sauce, ketchup, or even Monica sauce.

As for Monica sauce, we would speak about that soon.

This recipe suggests a way to make yamarita.

Yamarita can be eaten as a snack with a spicy dip like the Green pepper sauce, ketchup and spicy mayonnaise or as a meal with tomato stew, egg stew, mackerel in tomato sauce and vegetable stew.

Other spin-offs are coating leftover boiled sweet potato and irish potato, I wonder if they will be called pota-rita, bright idea right?…any suggestions?