CAMEROONIAN RECIPES (ACHU AND YELLOW SOUP)

                          

Achu and yellow soup is one of the delicious meals in Cameroon. It’s the quickest and easiest  soup to prepare. You will enjoy this meal with coco yam.

Ingredients

• 2kg coco-yams
• 15 Achu banana
• 1 kg of Cataigah ( back of a beef roster )
• 1.5 teaspoon of Agawa (lien-stone )or bicarbonate
• ½ bottle of red palm oil
• 1 tablespoon of salt
  
• 3 vegetables stock cubes and 2 bush onion
• 10 bush pepper and 2 pepper

Preparation of Achu

1. Wash the coco-yam, put it in a pot, stand it on the fire and add four liters of water. Also wash the bananas and put it on top of the coco-yam and cover.

2.  After one hour thirty minutes, first remove the banana and peel it and pound and keep it separate.

3.  Start peeling the coco-yam while the pot is still on fire

4.  When pounding, keep a small bowel of water beside you,  as you will be putting your pestle inside the water. With this, it will help your pounding move smoothly.

5.  When you have finished pounding the coco-yam, add the banana and pound together. Add a small cup of water on it, pound all in order to mix it.

6. Wrap all in a banana leaf and put it in one dish.

Preparation of yellow soup

1.  Wash the back of the beef thoroughly and boil it with salt and pepper for two hours with five liters of water, and slice it afterwards.

2. Grind the bush pepper, bush onion, boil pepper.

3.  Take a new pot, put the oil and the agawa or bicarbonate inside and stir it till the oil is yellow.

4. Add the remaining water that you boiled the beef with. If it is small,  you   add a small cup of water to make up a liter and stir it for ten minutes.     When it is real yellow, you put the spices and left out salt and   vegetable stock cube with the beef. Stir for another ten minutes, add the ground pepper and spices and stir it to mix together.

Serve with soup in the same plate, a hole is made in the middle of the plate and soup is poured in.