As they said, a recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the cook. With that being said, we shared how to cook boiled yam with garden egg, shrimps, egg, and smoked fish to learn from. This is a very tasty experimental dish. It can be eaten as breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
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INGREDIENTS
Serves 4
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- – 1 tuber Yam
- – 6 pieces Garden egg (igba)
- – 6 or more Chicken eggs
- – 2 or 3 Fresh tomatoes
- – 1 large Onion
- – 3 small red chilli peppers
- – 1 ½ cooking spoon Vegetable oil
- – 20g Shrimps
- – 1 piece of Smoked Fish
- – 1 can of Sardine or Corn beef (optional)
- – Optional seasoning (thyme, Maggi, curry)
METHOD
- Slice yam into round pieces, remove back with a knife and then place in a pot of water. Add a bit of sugar and salt, put a garden egg in a black thick paper bag then boil either separately or with the yam.
- If the garden egg is boiled or soft, pound or marsh with a small mortar.
- Add 1 ½ cooking spoons of vegetable oil into a deep frying pan, slice in a few onions, some tomatoes, and the red chili peppers then cook for 1 min.
- Add the sardine/corn beef, smoked fish, shrimps, and garden eggs. Meanwhile, whisk some chicken eggs in a bowl with a little bit of thyme, curry, and a cube of Maggi.
- Continue cooking by adding very few slices of scent leaves, the egg mix, and some seasoning then fry and stir all together for 3-4 minutes.
- Cook yam to tender, test with a fork, and serve as pictured above.
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