Tuesday, 15 December 2015

CAMEROONIANS RECIPES (ERU AND FUFU)

Eru is a sure delicious meal to eat and ask for more, also, its nutritional content place it at a high value.
Ingredients:

  • Sliced Eru/Okazi vegetable (2500g)
  • Palm oil (1 Liter)
  • Waterleaf or spinach (2500g)
  • Ground Crayfish (100g) – optional
  • Smoked fish or stock fish (optional)
  • Pepper (ground or 3 hot peppers)
  • Stock cube
  • Salt  to taste
  •  pepper
  • Meat, cow skin (kpomo)
  • Cassava flour
 
Direction for Preparing Eru
  1.    Wash the eru, and then soak in water to soften (eru leaves are very hard to cook), soak them in the water for about an hour before cooking; make sure you have enough spinach to add with eru.
  2.    Season the cow skin or meat or both. 
3.    Cook the stockfish in a separate pot. (When ready add it to the seasoned meat) 
4.    In a separate pot, cook the spinach with little or no water
5.    Place eru in a colander to drain the water
6.    When the spinach is ready, add the eru and stir well
7.    Add water (from meat) and let it cook for a while
8.    Make sure there is little to no water left when it's fully cooked
9.    Add the meat and stock fish and stir.
10.                      Pour your palm oil and stir
11.                      Lastly add the crayfish. In few minutes your eru is ready


How prepare fufu
  • Mix a portion of your cassava flour with cold/lukewarm water.
  • Boil a small quantity of water, add the mixture. (Stir constantly)
  • Add the remaining cassava flour little by little (Stir constantly)
  • Add water as needed
  • Keep pounding the fufu throughout the whole process, and until ready.
You can now serve your Eru soup with pounded fufu, or other types of swallow e.g garri, water fufu e.t.c

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