Ikokore

Recipe Description

Serve with Salad, pitta bread and hummous. This is a wonderful Middle Eastern dish.

Ingredients

  • 1 medium water yam.
  • 2 teaspoons tomato puree
  • 1 medium Onion
  • 2 teaspoons fresh pepper(ground)
  • ½ teaspoon locust beans
  • 1 tablespoon meat or chicken stock.
  • 100 ml palm oil
  • 450 gm (16 ounces) smoked dry fish
  • 2 magi cubes
  • salt (and condiments if desired)

Directions

  1. Ground the Onion.
  2. Peel water yam.
  3. Wash the yam, and grate it.
  4. Put the grated yam in a deep cooking pot.
  5. Add all the ingredients except fish.
  6. Add 250ml of water and simmer for 1 hour.
  7. Remove the bones in the fish, break it, and wash.
  8. Add the fish to the mixture.
  9. Mix the grated yam together, and add salt.
  10. Take a small scoop and drop it into the soup until it is used up.
  11. Reduce the heat, cover the pot and simmer for 30-40 minutes until yam is cooked.
  12. Serve hot.
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