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| a pot of ikokore |
This is Ikokore, a native meal for the Ijebus of Nigeria. It is similar to Ekpang Kwukor that
was posted earlier only that this is not cooked with vegetables. I can tell you for free that this is a very delicious meal, when you visit an Ijebu, you can be sure to be entertained with this.
Ingredients
1 tuber Water yam
Blended fresh Sombo (long red pepper)
Dried Shawa fish
Ponmo
Shaki
Dried prawns
Seasoning
Salt
Palm oil
Water
How I cooked it:
Peel, wash and grate water yam with the tiniest size of grater.
Add a little salt to the grated yam
Bring water to boil, when it boils, add blended
pepper,fish,shaki,ponmo,
While the content of the pot is boiling, cut grated yam into the pot in balls (like you are frying tiny puffs)
If the consistency is too thick, add water.
Then add seasoning and taste for salt
Add more salt if needed then stir
This takes 5 mins to cook,so you can turn down the heat and add ur palm oil.
Let the palm oil cook (the fresh taste disappears)
Turn off the heat.
Your ikokore is ready....
(The quantity of the palm oil u add depends on the colour of the yam after grating, if its white yam, you would need more palm oil.
I love the palm oil in it so i usually tend to add excess.)
Shayor.
Nice one shayor it would have been easier if u did a step by step picture procedure for learners like us ;lol
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Well done Shayor, didn't know ikokore was that easy to make. I had always thought it was complicated. Thanks for sharing. Will add this recipe to my list of food to try cooking. x
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Good one here Shayor, but next time photos of the steps will be more helpful.
ReplyDeleteSorry Lahmow, I forgot that I was going to send it to the blog, try and follow the steps, I'm sure you would get it, you are a fantastic cook na...ppl like me shld come and learn from you sef.. Yes spynaija, its very easy and fast too,that is excluding grating time.. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteNice one. Can one try it with anything other than yam?
ReplyDeleteNo, Myne, only water yam, not even normal yam or cocoyam...only wateryam.
ReplyDeleteNow, being married to an Ijebu man, this is one of the delicacies he loves. Esp when fried like akara.
ReplyDeleteWeldone Shayor.
That's ojojo! anoda yummy meal! Most taken as a snack! I would try to send that pretty soon, I still av some wateryam left!
ReplyDeleteohhh so ojojo is made with water yam too?? please do send the recipe in but please rem the step by step this time ma..
DeleteIsn't dis just grated-yam porridge?
ReplyDeleteSame procedure but different name!
And d oil is way 2 much!
Ill deffo try dis out!
P.s..OMG I tried Ewa agoyin 4 d 1st time yesterday!
So yummy!
D oil pepper smells devine and d taste was orgasmic!
D pepper was like my chinese chilly I use in making my chicken chow mein!
Ill b making me own soon!
All tanx 2 Eya!
Billie jean
well it might be but this time made the Ijebu way..Its a well known Ijebu delicacy..
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Not me Billie Jean, Lahmow cooked that EWA AGOYIN. All I did was post the pictures.
DeleteBillie jean, pls don't grate normal yam ooo! Lolz! Its wateryam! Pls try it and I'm sure you'd testify! Ijebus rock!!!
ReplyDeleteNice one Shayor, abeg o make Aunty Eya or any other person teach us how to make small Chinese Cuisine's now. Make all dis Chinese Restaurant stop to dey collect our money o. Lolzzz
ReplyDeleteAm igbo but my boyfriend is ijebu. Just sent him a pix of d delicacy n he said he loves d meal so much. Want to suprise him with it....lol.pls shayor wats shawa fish??
ReplyDeleteHi anon.. Its dry n flat, more like the way dey smoke tilapia but its not tilapia. Not sure if its the one dey call bonga fish. Someone pls help out! Tnx.
ReplyDeleteYes Shayor, Shawa is also called Bonga fish(by d non yoruba speaking peeps)smoked titus fish can also be added.
ReplyDeleteWill love to give it a try.
ReplyDeleteI just made this Ikokore, I had mine with fried plantain and it was yummy I tell U̶̲̥̅̊, my hubby had it with cold Eba and my bro in law had it with bread.
ReplyDeleteWe ended it with pineapple and I tell you dinner tonight was fantastic.
I didn't add shaki thou, just smoked titus fish, smoked pomo and grinded crayfish.
Wow cool! I was just about to suggest to eat it with cold eba before I saw it in ur comment! Its wonderful! I avnt had it with plantain before tho! How was it? And bread??? Omg! The furthest I av gone with ikokore is with rice or with garri.. With eba is a norm in my house...and ofcourse, don't forget with eko (agidi) too is awesome!
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