HWC Contest #72 Food Diary Game -Week-14 by @missyleo

Good day my beautiful people of this community and across the globe, hope your day is going smoothly, because mine is moving fine. It's a pleasure to also participate in this food dairy contest organized by @jyoti-thelight, big thanks to you ma'am.

Ekpang nkukwo (Local delicacy)

Today I want to tell you about what I cooked today, it's my local delicacy that I prepared today and I'm going to show you the step by step method of preparation, so Just sit tight and read to the end, I hope you enjoy it.

Before I begin with the preparation I will first of all list out the ingredients I used in preparing it below.

Ingredients

• Cocoyam

• Wateryam

• Periwinkle

• Crayfish

• Pepper

• Maggi

• Salt

• Red oil

• Bonga fish

• Cocoyam leaf

Step by step Preparation

Peeled the Cocoyam and wateryam,
Washed and grate it. Then I sprinkle a small amount of salt on the Wateryam and cocoyam so that it can have taste.

Grating the Wateryam and Cocoyam and also preparing the leaf

I washed my periwinkle into the pot, seasoned it with maggie, salt, pepper and red oil into the pot and turned it well.

wrapped the Cocoyam and wateryam bit by bit with the nkukwo (Cocoyam ) leaf into the pot.

Wrapping the Cocoyam into the pot

After wrapping everything into the pot, I will now used hot water and pour into the pot of the wrapped Ekpang Nkukwo and placed it on fire, it will boil for about 30 to 45 minutes, I will keep putting water at intervals.

Pot of ekpang nkukwo on fire

When it's finally soften well I will now put the remaining ingredients, like crayfish, fish, Maggi, pepper and red oil. I cover it to simmer well for 10minutes more. Then later I slice scent leaf (ntoñ) and put into the pot for flavour, some people uses curry leaf.

Slicing the scent leaf

After putting the scent leaf, I put my bonga fish then I stir the pot with a spatula and cover it again to simmer for 2minutes , then I put it down and turn off the gas.

My ekpang nkukwo is ready to be eaten

About to dish it out

Come and carry your own plate from here

Thank you all for stopping by to read my post patiently, as I invite my friends to join me in the contest @fannyescobar @emmaboy and @dwings.

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