My Five Star Presentation Of Yam Porridge
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| A serving of yam porridge. |
This is No joke. I want to improve on my food presentation. This anyhow take pictures and post has to STOP!.
I thought of sticking slices of lemon to tooth pick and pinning on the yam but it didn’t flow.
I tried placing sliced pineapple by the side, it didn’t flow at all.
Finally I cut some apples, tomatoes, with some fried meat balls and onion, pinned on toothpick and served beside the porridge, e no gree me at all.
I just had to take pics in a green plate that matches the green veggies. Wetin remain? I wanted to serve with green cutleries but I no get.
Anyway, for now o, this is five star yam porridge presentation. Who says five star doesn’t serve our own Naija yam porridge?
Manage this for now please. Next time I will think of other ways to serve five star yam. I promise!
If you know other
ways abeg help a sister. You all will be shocked at my improved presentation when I post another food recipe.
Enjoy!
Ingredients for yam porridge with fish powder and green vegetables:
- 1 small tuber yam, peeled, washed and diced.
- water enough to cover the yam in the pot.
- 1 cup Smoked fish powder
- 2 medium sized Smoked catfish
- 1 tablespoon ground Pepper
- salt to taste
- 2 Seasoning cubes
- 1 cup Palm oil
- 1 small bunch Green amaranth, scent leaves or uziza leaves
- 1/4 cup Locust beans (optional).
STEPS
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Peel yam, dice and wash. Put in a deep cooking pot with enough water to cover the yams. |
| Add fish powder and seasoning cubes. I made my fish powder from ground dried catfish head |
| Add washed smoked fish |
| pepper sauce or any pepper you have. |
| salt to taste |
| When yam is cooked and soft, you can then add green vegetables. |
| Green amaranth
Mint or scent leaves |
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| A pot of healthy yam porridge |
Any corrections to make it a truly five star meal?
MORE YAM RECIPES:
- Yam porridge with uziza
- porridge with crayfish and much vegetables
- Yam and spinach by priscillia
- White yam in tomato egg sauce
Sliced tomatoes would have looked beautiful
OK, thank you.
You can garnish round the meal with just onions. Or combine with both onions and tomatoes. Both round like rings. But soak the onions in salted water first sha before using it to garnish.
Oh and boiled egg whites sliced like rings too. That would make it look colourful too. Just place them onions first, tomatoes next, then egg, just like that (let them overlap), till you get to the beginning of the spherical design.
Aunty Eya I beg you o. Don't bring ogbono soup here garnished with raw tomatoes. Don't bring yam porridge garnished with ripe tomatoes or strwawberry o.
Serve us our original Naija food like that plain as e suppose be. Anyday you cook oyibo rice and spaghetti, you can garnish with apricot if you like.
Must we turn our own local foods into oyibo???
Why? Not surprised some Nigerians call Akara bean cake cos everything must be oyibolised.
A Chinese will never change Sushi to "rice wraps" They will continue to present and call it their way until rvry body imbibes it. That way their culture is preserved. Our own is to oyibolize everything.
The day you garnish foo foo and soup with boiled egg please don't post it here.
I'm a custodian of my Naija food culture.
All those sisters telling you to garnish yam porridge with raw tomatoes and raw onion, I hope na dem go eat the tomatoes and onion after eating proper yam porridge o?
I can't imagine myself chewing raw onion or tomato after a bowl of yam porridge biko.
I see Nigerians don't have anything good to preserve any more. The white ma's long sleek hair, they copy.
The whiteman's colour, they copy.
The white man's three course meal, they copy for amala and ewedu.
The white man's cosmetics, they copy. Very soon we'll all be eating pasta cos we can't find our roots anymore. SMH. It's not bad to copy.must we present foo foo and soup or our native porridges with oyibo style? Don't you watch Chinese still eat their local foods with chop sticks?? If na Nigerians, they would have forgotten chop sticks tay tay. See chinese? They preserved it and now everybody wan learn to use chop sticks.
Aunty Eya shame on you too if you can't fight to preserve our Nigerian food culture. SMH for you too.
This looks good. I love yam porridge anyday.
Eya, try cooking this porridge with scent leaves. I'm very sure your family will love it.
Abeg i like it like dis. I almost licked d screen of my phone.
It's optional. There are people that can't eat rice and stew except you serve them raw tomatoes and onions separately. To some, it's 'rubbish', to others, it's 'life'. We don't all have similar taste buds.
LMAOOOO AUNTY EYA URE SO FUNNY. LOOKS YUMMY.
chai aunty Eya amanbgukwam o!i am literrally salivating here.way to go babes!
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LMAOOO!! I kinda agree with you o!! 😀
Eya I am almost falling off my bed laughing at ur reported attempts. Don't worry it will get better.
U have succeed in tempting me this afternoon. Nice job.
Aunty Eya I personally don't think this very meal needs garnishing. The vegetables look nice and crunchy just like I like it. I also like that the porridge is not thick. Well done.
Aunty Eya, u no go kill person wt laff, lmao. Abeg no pursue us wt too much oyibo tnz
Nice one aunty Ojay,I prefer pumpkin lea to the green amaranth,I also love my porridge thick,so I cut the yams in small sizes.
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Yummy, I love. Just use nice plates.
Aunty Eya, na heaven b ur portion wit dis kain food! Can't wait to cook dis dis weekend.
Luv dis!!!!!!!!
Hahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha @ failed garnishing tins u c wetin dat tequilq recipe cause
This looks very good. I think I like the onion rings idea…
hehehehe….true sha
Nice job Aunty Eya,,,i love my porridge thick tho
Thanks Jay but why onion in salted water?
@Bad Chef, garnishing is just to beautify the food and make it look inviting. No one is changing our culture. I can beautify ogbono and foo foo with a fruit by the side, is that wrong? You make sense sha.
Hi Naija good food, beautifying doesn't mean you must eat everything. If you don't like the extras, you can leave them and eat what you like. So, if they put five star slice of lemon on your wine glass, is it compulsory that you chew the lemon?
Thank you Mrs D
Yes Mary. I love porridge with mint leaves. Thank you.
Thank you YUCEE, you can scatter the screen and eat the yam.
Thanks Ama
Eya abeg no use laugh kill me
I don't think every dish needs garnishing
This looks ok as it is
@Warm hearts, thank you oooo
Thank you Peace. I will keep trying my best.
Thanks Lizzy but I think egg rings around the plate of yam would have looked more inviting. Thanks sis.
Sorry dear, just trying namake you guys happy.
Thanks Bonario, you will enjoy it more with scent leaves. This porridge is thick o. Maybe the picture is playingtricks with your eyes.
It looked nice but oil too much o
#coughingInMyThroat
Thank you anon. I will get nice plates next time.
Thanks Cathryn. Incase you remember to take pics, please share with us.
No not about that. I'm trying to improve on my food presentation.
This yam no need any garnishing bcos it is garnished already. They only tin I can say is its too watery or if you still what to add sometin to it maybe goat meat or gizzard in pepper and tomato sauce by d side.
Thanks Ahdaisy, next time I'll try again.
Thank you Bislondy. Is this too watery?
Sorry about my failed garnishing. I think now that green amaranth has done a little garnishing here.
@Aunt Eya: So that the Onions will not be cause the food eater to shed onions-induced tears.
Yummy! This is ok d way it is but i think it will taste better with scent leaves or even a little of d utazi or uziza leaves. Keep it up Eya nd leave garnishing out of it. Its ok dis way.
'Lolling'@ …garnish foofoo and soup with boiled egg…
Eya, so many comedians on this blog o.
I think garnishing with boiled egg and onions like Jay suggested is a godd idea sa.
I think plain white plates showcases the vibrant colours of your dish better 🙂
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Hello Aunty Eya, pls did you use both green and scent leaves for the porridge?
MMMnn!!! looks yummy Eya would definitely be trying out the recipe.
Try serving on white plates so that the colours can pop!!!
Also photograph under bright white light.
For stewy runny food, serve in a bowl(white) placed on a nice tray or charger.
Just a few presentation tips.
No not both. I used green this time.
nice meal anty Eya, i cant go wrong with yam, in any variation! seriouly laughing at you attempt in garnishing!
Aunt Eya,pls are mint and scent leaves the same?and is it what the yorubas call 'efirin'?
No, they are not the same. Green Amaranth is different from Mint leaves.
OK, noted. Thanks Jenny
OK, thank you Dressed
@Wunmi, thanks for the tips
Hahaha Deborah, my failed attempt you mean?
I just made this, although I substituted amaranthugu for pumpkin leaves and I used smoked catfish. It tastes amazing. Thanks for the tip aunty eya.