Recipe: To Try At Home Yam porridge

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Recipe: To Try At Home Yam porridge Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Yam porridge. Yam pottage/Yam Porridge (Asaro) Recipe - Asaro which is also known as Yam pottage or Yam porridge is a very delicious Yam recipe though it's eaten by most tribes in Nigeria but it's more common in the Yoruba speaking parts of Nigeria. Yam Porridge can also be referred to as yam soup. It is mainly yam cooked with ingredients and the resulting dish contains some soupy liquid.

Also slice or grind the tomatoes, fresh pepper and a cup of crayfish.

I use lots of onions while making most foods, just for its health benefits.

Preparing yam porridge requires peeling the yam, cutting the yam tuber into small thick pieces, then cooking the whitish fleshy starchy part with a collection of selected ingredients.

You can have Yam porridge using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Yam porridge

  1. Prepare 2 cups of small diced yam.

  2. You need 2 of chopped onion/garlic.

  3. Prepare of Maggi,salt&seasoning.

  4. It’s of Grounded crayfish.

  5. Prepare of Vegetable oil/red oil.

  6. It’s of Fresh blend tomato&red pepper.

  7. Prepare of Boiled beans optional.

  8. It’s of Boiled beans optional.

In most of the West African markets and busy roads, yam are usually fried and sold as "street food" or "roadside food".

Yam porridge is the combination of fresh Puna yam and tomato sauce.

It's mostly enjoyed by most countries in West Africa especially Nigeria.

Wash yam pieces and place into a pot.

Yam porridge step by step

  1. In a pot,add oil,onion/garlic blended tomato & pepper,spices,beef stock and stir.Add diced yam,seasoning and water cover and cook until tender.Serve warm.

  2. In a pot,add oil,onion/garlic blended tomato & pepper,spices,beef stock and stir.Add diced yam,seasoning and water cover and cook until tender.Serve warm.

Pour in water to about the same level of the yam slices.

Yam is rich in potassium essential component of cell and body fluids that controls the heart rate and also the arterial blood pressure.

Potassium helps in enhancing digestion and kindles smooth muscle.

Yam tubers are used for various traditional medicines in China, Korea and Japan.

Yam porridge is one of the most accessible and most popular Nigerian foods.