PLANTAIN PORRIDGE - The alternative

Unripe plantain porridge I would say is one of my favorites. I craved for it, so I decided I was going to prepare them. I went to the market to buy but it was nowhere to be found, chei. I was so bent on eating it that day, but trust me I had to improvise. I ended up buying yam, ripped plantain and white potatoes. So here is the alternative to unripe plantain porridge.

Ingredients

Yam – skin peeled     

Ripped plantain

Irish/white potatoes

1 Knorr cube {depends on the quantity one is cooking}

Baby spinach

Crayfish

Dried fish

Pepper

Water

Onions

Salt

Red oil

 

Method

• Peel the skins and cut into small cubes
• In a pot, put in the cubed yam, potatoes and plantain {the potatoes help thicken the food and the plantain sweetens it}
• Add water {not much water, just a little below the yam level}
• Turn on the gas and cover the pot with its lid
• Blend the onions, pepper and crayfish together with little water; pour the blended mix into the pot
• Wash the dry fish with salt, remove the bones and then add into the pot
• Add a cube of Knorr and pinch of salt
• Pour in the red oil about 120mls or more depending on the quantity of the yam
• Then finally cut in the onions
• Allow cooking for about 10 mins
• Check if the yam cooked by piercing through with a knife
• Once done, constantly turn to porridge {this helps to kind of mash the potatoes thereby thickening the porridge}
• Allow cooking for a minute, then turn…
• Once you are satisfy with the thickness, turn off the gas
• Add the spinach
• And serve.

Yam porridge can be boring, this is just the best way to prepare and sweeten it a little bit. **smiles**

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Be safe and stay blessed.

Belle