Easiest Way to Make Homemade Yam pottage

Yam pottage. Yam pottage/Yam porridge (Asaro) is a very delicious Yam recipe though it's eaten by most tribes in You can watch the video on how to make the Nigerian Yam pottage/Yam Porridge (Asaro) Recipe. This is my new way to make Yam Porridge / Yam Pottage also known as Asaro. If you are not subscribed join the family by clicking.

WHATEVER YOU ARE ,BE A GOOD ONE ✨. Pottage (/ˈpɒtɪdʒ/ POT-ij) is a term for a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish. It was a staple food for many centuries. You can have Yam pottage using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Yam pottage

1. You need 1 1/5 kg of diced yam.
2. Prepare 2 of cooking spoons palm oil.
3. You need cubes of Seasoning.
4. You need of Salt.
5. Prepare of Spring onions stem (diced).
6. It's of Pounded dried prawn.
7. Prepare of Pounded crayfish.
8. You need 1 of large Smoked panla.
9. It's of Diced fresh scotch bonnet peppers.
10. Prepare of Diced onions.

The word pottage comes from the same Old French root as potage, which is a dish of more recent origin. I garnished with fresh Spinach for the sake of preserving nutrients, although the vegetables are traditionally cooked with the dish. These useful spices can be used to cook so many different meals! Yam porridge is a quick savory meal that everyone can enjoy.

Yam pottage step by step

1. Wash and put diced yam in a pot and add water.
2. Add salt and the seasoning cubes to it from the start so it has time to penetrate into the yam.
3. Cover and allow to cook for 10minutes.
4. Add the pepper and onions and continue cooking.
5. 20-25minutes into the cooking add the panla fish and palm oil with the pounded prawns and crayfish.
6. When the yam is almost tender, use your spoon or wooden spatula to press 1-2 pieces of the soft yam. This gives the pottage a thick, smooth and color rich look without oil floating in your pottage.
7. Then sprinkle in the spring onion stem.
8. Cook for 1-2 minutes more and stir to make sure it’s thick and well seasoned and set down.

The use of yam, spices, some herbs and meat makes it somewhat like a feast. How to cook Nigerian Asaro (Yam Porridge / pottage). Yam pottage/Yam porridge locally known as[ Asaro] in Yoruba part of Nigerian is a delicious meal usually made with yam and palm oil. Yam pottage is soft and it tastes so good with the combination. This is "YAM POTTAGE" by Ndudu Chef on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.