People keep wondering "what is African breadfruit?" and how to prepare it the complete way an Igbo person would like it.
The majority of the questions I recieve via my contact page form come from ladies that are married into a Nigerian man, What things to serve a Yoruba man for lunch? What things to serve an igbo man for for breakfast and stuff like that.
Which was the reason I started an entirely new series on foods eaten by different Nigerian tribes and if you have coping with African breadfruit (ukwa) among the popular Igbo foods.
The Two Ukwa Recipes
Ukwa might be cooked with potash and merely eaten like that or it may be separated through the water for the seeds being mashed with a few ingredients and thereafter served with the extract (water).
I make reference to the juice after cooking as the extract, You'll learn more about this by watching it for African breadfruit. (Below), the complete steps outlined here was demonstrated in detail.
Underneath are the constituents for preparing Ukwa (African Breadfruit), everything you have below would serve about three people, it is possible to increase or decrease with regards to the amount of persons you are planning to serve not to mention stomach sizes .
All the ingredients
4 Cups of ukwa
Potash (akanwu) a spoon full
Fresh pepper (about 5)
Ogiri (optional) (a neighborhood ingredient)
Maggi (half cube)
Salt to taste
Red oil (5-10 cl)
2 Cups of maize (optional)
Cook the corn till it is rather soft for consumption
Wash the ukwa, It is crucial to clean severally inside a bowl with lots of water that is clean, Furthermore, i work with a plastic sieve just to ensure that all hidden tiny stones are sorted out,
Put in a cooking pot and cook to boiling point before adding the potash, normally I dissolve the potash in water to filter out the residue, then add the filtrate. Additionally, you will learn more about this from the video below.
It can be needful to notice that Ukwa does not have you ever gotten soft (done) without using the catalyst (potash), I tried this in high school graduation so we cooked for longer than four hours before we realized that something was missing. There is another factor that serves the identical purpose as potash, it can be available as ash gotten in the burning of palm fronds, it's locally called ngu as well as the people of Igbo prefer it above Akanwu (potash)
If you want to make Ukwa with ngu make use of the same method as though you are using potash, dissolve in a cup full of water enable one to three minutes then utilize the filtrate.
Cook up until ukwa is soft for consumption and you may serve. This is among the two ways to eat African breadfruit in Nigerian, many people love to add a pinch of salt although some a part of Igbos don't use salt with this particular recipe.
As soon as the Ukwa Seeds are soft for consumption Separate the seeds in the water while you would get in the playback quality below, (that is certainly to sieve out your soft seeds in the water) most of the people prefer to eat much like that or ensure it is the way it appears above.
Pound the pepper with mortar and pestle (keep this in mind is real local but delicious meal), add about 5cl of red oil, 1 / 2 cup of maggi, one ball of ogiri and stir (utilize a garri turner, a spoon-like wood), add some soft corn, stir you can add the soft ukwa seed then turn very well with all the garri turner and you will have the exact being similar to the image above.
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