🍲 Ekpang Nkukwo

African · 13 ingredients · 15 steps

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Ekpang Nkukwo
Ekpang Nkukwo — photograph by Jostbrain, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia.
2-3 hours Cooking time: 1–2 hours4–6 people5
Cook for servings as written The source's own quantities, rounded to the nearest mark on a cup or a spoon. A line carrying a second number of its own — a weight in another unit, a count of pieces — is left as written.

Ingredients

  • Cocoyams
  • Fresh cocoyam leaves
  • Palm oil
  • Fresh fish, Washed and cut into pieces
  • Dry fish
  • Stockfish
  • Periwinkle
  • Crayfish, ground
  • Pepper, ground
  • Onions, chopped
  • Seasoning cubes
  • Salt
  • Water

Method

  1. Peel and wash the cocoyam thoroughly.
  2. Grate the cocoyam into a smooth paste.
  3. Wash the cocoyam leaves and cut off any hard stalks.
  4. Place a small quantity of the cocoyam paste in each leaf and wrap it securely.
  5. pour plam oil into the cooking pot
  6. Arrange the wrapped cocoyam parcels in the cooking pot that already contains plam oil.
  7. Add the fish, stockfish, dry fish into the pot
  8. pour in your pepper, onions, crayfish, seasoning cubes.
  9. In a separate pot boil hot water that will be enough for the food.
  10. put your cooking pot on fire and pour in the already boiled water into the cooking pot that contains your cocoyam parcels and ingredients and stir gently using a wooden spatula.
  11. Cover the pot and let it cook on medium heat for 2-3 minutes, then you pour in your periwinkles and stri gently.
  12. Cover and cook over medium heat for about 1-2 hours, adding water if necessary.
  13. Stir carefully from time to time to prevent burning.
  14. Continue cooking until the cocoyam is soft and the sauce is thick.
  15. Serve hot.
Where this came from. Adapted from Ekpang Nkukwo in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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