My favorite nutritious food and it’s health benefit.

There is an easy but important grace gained from reading an interesting write up. Presenting to you my favorite Nutritious food “Ekwang” and it’s health benefits.

Ekwang is a traditional Meal of the Bafaw people from the Southwest region of Cameroon. Although Ekwang is a traditional Nigerian dish, it is also a popular Cameroonian dish ,consisting of grated coco-yams(a tuber crop) that are tied in cocoyam leaves, then simmered with crayfish, smoked fish ,meet and various spices.
Although making ekwang takes too much time and it’s laborious due to all the grating and wrapping ,its delicious and disappears from the plates quite fast after it has been served.

Here are my ingredients
-Pealed coco-yams
-crayfish
-palm oil
-white pepper
-smoked fish
-meet
-tomatoes ,pepper ,licks ,ginger ,garlic
-maggi cubes and salt for seasoning (to your taste)

*The coco-yam is grated (or you blend ) and wrapped in coco-yam leafs.

*Then simmered with our crayfish and spice ,the palm oil added in and some warm water added.

*Add in our smoked fish and meat then maggi and salt.

*cooked withe mild heat for about an hour and the food is all ready.

HEALTH BENEFITS Of MY FAVORITE NUTRITIOUS FOOD.
-Cocoyam has better nutritional qualities than other root and tuber crops ,with higher protein, vitamin and mineral content.
-A versatile staple, cocoyam can also be used as weaning food.

• The leaves can be cooked as vegetable , they reduce your cholesterol level , helps control blood pressure and aids in weight loss.
  -The food contains crayfish which is reach in B Vitamins and minerals such as Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Zinc and Phosphorous that are important for the body.
  -crayfish is also a high quality protein.
  -the food contains tomatoes ,tomatoes release more lycopene (a cancer-fighting antioxidant) when cooked and is also reach in vitamin C.

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