Nigerian Plantain Porridge Recipe

Nigerian Plantain Porridge Recipe. 
A plate of plantain porridge with green vegetables.

Plantain porridge with green vegetables.

 

COOKING STEPS FOR NIGERIAN PLANTAIN PORRIDGE

A plate of Nigerian plantain porridge with green vegetables.

Plantain porridge can be cooked with or without vegetables.
This is cooked with ugu vegetables but sometimes I cook porridge with uziza or mint leaves. Unripe plantain porridge is very healthy. Those avoiding sugars can eat without
feeling guilty.  
 
Bush meat or goat meat is also very good with plantain
porridge. Whether you cook with bush or goat meat, remember to add smoked catfish.I don’t like the taste of crayfish in plantain porridge that’s why it’s not  here.
 
Unripe plantain porridge can be mashed and given to babies being introduced to solids. And please,I think Basil leaf is not scent leaf. Mint leaf is scent leaf. 

Fairly ripe plantain can also be cooked this way. Uziza (hot) leaves give this dish a great yummy taste.

 
  • Add washed smoked fish to boiling water
  • Add knorr seasoning cubes
and pepper

Adding chopped plantain to boiling pot

Add salt to boiling plantain

Add palm oil to pot. Cover and let it boil well and mix.

Bring in your dadadwa locust beans. Stir very well and check for taste.

Now add little ugu vegetable for this porridge 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

  • Water the level of plantain in the pot
  • 3 medium sized Smoked catfish
  • 2 seasoning cubes
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tablespoon ground fresh Pepper
  • 1/2 cup palm oil
  • 5 fingers unripe or fairly ripe Plantain
  • 2 tablespoons Locust beans
  • A handful shred Ugu, uziza vegetables or scent leaves

 

 

 

Nigerian Plantain Porridge Recipe
Nigerian Plantain Porridge Recipe
Cooked porridge plantain
A large serving of porridge plantain
Healthy Plantain porridge

 

Thick Nigerian plantain porridge.
Plantain porridge can be served as breakfast, lunch or dinner. Ingredients added at about 2 to 3 minutes intervals.
For sweet tooth:)This can also be cooked with fairly ripe plantain.
Enjoy our sumptuous Nigerian plantain porridge.
 
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48 thoughts on “Nigerian Plantain Porridge Recipe”

  1. Aunty Eya you have gone international wire. I just saw the lovely Nollywood Mercy Johnson and her baby purity among your Google+ followers.

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  2. I 'll neva believe in Technology until d Oyibo pple invent machine, jst any Machine dat can download Food. Damn, this Plantain looks outta d Planet, looks delicious!… That pepper though, *rme* I jst hope it won't burn down my 'Longer' throat. I always sing National Anthem in Mass n turn my books upside down each time I eat 2much pepper. No matter what, I'm gonna try dis. Broda Bona, Pls bookmark dis one make we try am 2geda.

    VALENTINE.

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  3. Aunty Eya can I cuk dis wit ripe plantain??? Unripe plantain no dey sweet me jor! But dis looks nice though, very very inviting!
    Great blog!

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  4. It'll help if you told us the time intervals between adding the ingredients. E.g how long between when you added the plantain and when u added the palm oil, 'cos if you add both immediately, the pot starts burning.
    I think timing is the only thing missing from the recipes on your blog. Not everyone is an expert that can deduce the time to add what and what to the pot knowing fully well that unripe plantain takes a while to become tender.
    All in All, looks nice and yummy 🙂

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  5. I add my ingredients in like 5 minutes intervals and it's very ok. After everything is added, if plantain is still hard, i Allow to ontinue simmering until tender. Eya uses her eyes to do timing, at least that's what she told us.

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  6. Lovely!! I'm sooooooooo gonna try dis tonite. Aunty Eya, tnx for giving me dinner idea dis nyt. *e-hugs and e-kisses for u*

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  7. aunty Eya i have been very disturbed lately. firstly, there was this guy i was seeing in 2012, God fearing and all, but he was very petty and likes to keep mailce. and then whenever we have an argument or quarrel, he wants out. the last straw that broke the camels back was when he asked me to choose between him and my family. and i just tot that was the height. and i let him go. now fast forward later in the year in 2013, i noticed he started calling me again, i knew he wanted to get back wt me, but it was too late as i was already seeing someone that loves me for me. and then i got engaged. okay since then i have been praying about it and i have asked others to join me. i have a conviction in my heart that he is the one for me, but somethings just needs to fall in place and it will through prayers. A friend of mine who is a pastor confirmed it a week after my engagement that he was the one and i need to continue praying and another pastor told me he is the one for me that will love me despite all., but the problem i have now is that two other men of God has told me that it doesn't look like Gods will for me. and whenever they are praying for me, they keep saying if its remaining one minute for me to say i do to the wrong person, that God should scatter it. i find it very disturbing because am suppose to be walking down the aisle in august. how am i suppose to concentrate on planning my wedding with such report.? even rite now i doubt myself and these days am being mean to my fiance . i dunno am just so afraid and scared. i don't want to make a mistake in my marital journey.
    please i your advice. thanks

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  8. I love plantain porridge a lot, especially with beans and goat meat, yommy! But you are doing advert for knorr o! Did Thay pay you And Must it be knorr cube?

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  9. Hi worried lady…..that tag though.

    There are certain things I have learnt in my walk with Christ. one is :- God will NEVER till someone something about you that he hasn't told you already or let me put it this way…..Gos won't tell another person something about you without revealing it to you first. the question now is….. are u listening?
    That being said, I will advice you go back to God in prayers. You Need to get a word or two from him concerning the situation. I TRUST the God I serve. he isn't an author of confusion so I know he would reveal what needs to be revealed TO YOU.

    Also an advice to Single ladies, PLEASE before you go into any relationship pray about it. not just pray but also ask God for confirmation about the guy/girl in question. Trust me if our sister got confirmation(s) from God about her present fiancé she wouldn't be worried at the moment.

    May God direct you and may he grant u wisdom. Amen.

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  10. My advice; deal with the matter yourself, don't involve others… When ℓ̊ was prayin b4 my wedding ℓ̊ asked God to do his thing nd show ME, ℓ̊ didn't go to any pastor. A̶̲̥̅♏ not saying going to God fearing pastors re bad, buh @ dis point ƴ۵џ shld 4get dem cos its already causing confusion for ƴ۵џ. When Jesus died on †ђ3 cross, †ђ3 temple curtain was torn in 2 giving everyone direct access to God.

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  11. worried lady. Pls if u dnt hv peace about ur former guy just leave him. Also as a xtian u shuld be spiritually alert and sensitive. Dnt depend on pastors.

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  12. Dear worried lady lol, I love what anon 8:40 wrote. What is your level of communication with God. If you don't know how God talks to you, you may spend a lifetime never hearing from God. If you already know that I will like you to spend time alone praying(not petitional prayers but fellowship with God). There is no way God won't talk to you 1st about something as important as your life partner. Remember God told Abraham about his plans to destroy sodom n Gomorrah this goes to show that God love to communion with us.

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  13. Hi, I have just discovered your web page because I was looking for a recipe for coconut rice. I have my coconut rice cooking as I type this thanks to you! your Plaintain porridge looks delicious as well. I shall make it tomorrow! Thanks.

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  14. Thanks Debs, this is old o. Baby is taking so much time as we are still on our baby friendly at least for the next few weeks. No time to cook and take step by step pics yet o. These old recipes are cos of requests in my mail box. My three months or less exclusive breastfeeding will soon end sha.

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  15. Do you know nothing taste better than vegetable soup prepared with unrefined shea butter? Coming up soon with a post on that. I hope Anty Eya will publish it. Hehe! Have fun wives.

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  16. I like your post, just stumbled on it while searching for Nigerian delicacies. how do i become a member of this site, where do i click.?

    Thanks

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