SEC-S10W6 | Teach me to do something with my hands .

Hello fellow scouts and friends. It is the last week of the season 10 engagement challenge. Today, I am opportune to share with you all my entries to the challenge titled “Teach me how to do something with hands”.

We all have different unique skills in life and we used them in different ways. One of those skills I know I'm good at is cooking. I learned this from my mom and I can say today, I can cook almost all traditional delicacies in Cameroon. Permit me to share a tutorial on one of our traditional desserts.

This traditional dessert is mostly consumed in the villages and also in towns but in the village it tastes so well after eating a sumptuous meal. It is called pounded Irish with beans (Has different traditional names which I cannot give a correct spelling). I hope you will find pleasure to follow the tutorial.

Ingredients Required.

1   Irish potato.
2   Beans
3   Palm oil
4   Country Onion (rondelle)
5   Salt 
6   Seasoning cubes 
7   Onion (optional)
8   Hot chilli (optional).

With regards to the quantity of ingredients to use, it depends on the number of persons you intended to serve with the traditional dessert. For me, I am preparing for 5 people. This will cost about 3000frs ( approximately 27 steem at the current market rates).

Cooking Process and Estimated Time.

Step 1: You have to select your beans to ensure that bad beans and dirt are not inside when you want to prepare them. After selecting, you washed the beans and boiled them. The cooking time depends on the fire you are using. In the village, it takes a longer time of about 2 hours to boil the beans as they used the local fireside. With a pressure pot, it takes about 45 minutes. On the gas cooker, it takes about 1:30 minutes for the beans to get ready.

Step 2: Peeled your Irish potatoes (organic because it has little water). Washed the peeled potatoes with clean water.

Step 3: Put the washed potatoes, and boiled beans, add salt, the seasoning cube to taste, and hot chilli if you like, add 1/2 cub of water as the salt will also extract water from the potatoes, and I also like adding sliced unions. Boiled for about 30 minutes until the water is about to get dried off.

Add palm oil and rondelle, and allow the pot at low heat until the water dries off.

Step 4: Removed the pot from the cooker and placed it on the floor. Use the local pestle to pound until have a smooth texture.

Step 5:The traditional dessert is ready and can be served with some chilled natural juice.

As I earlier said, this dessert is mostly prepared in our village after eating a traditional delicacy like “achu and yellow soup”, you are served with this dessert.

It's the weekend and a good time to prepare such desserts. I am inviting @saxopedia, @majerius, @josepha, @paholags and @m-fdo to share their entries to this challenge if they have not yet participated.