One of my favourite meal bitterleave soup and Fufu corn

jatoleo (52)☑️ [🇨🇲]✍in Steem Cameroon • 2 years ago

Hello guys, hope we all doing well today. As the saying goes the way to a man’s heart is though his belly. Today I will be sharing with you guys the little I know about the kitchen. Growing up I always love helping in the kitchen so I did learn to prepare some few dishes, which today I did cooked bitter leaf soup and Fufu corn. Bitter leaf with scientific name Vernonia amygdalina is a wild plant (vegetable). It taste bitter hence the name bitter leaf. It do have a lot of health benefits which I will not talk on it now because today is all about eating it. It has many methods of preparing it but I’m doing the country bitter leaf method which I like with Fufu corn. Fufu corn on the other hand is prepared from corn flour then mold in loafs. I will be explaining my method I used. # How to prepare country bitter leaf soup.

• First I harvest the bitter leaf from the farm.

• Had to select the good leaves and chopped them with a knife so as to have smaller leaves for ease in washing.

• After chopping them, had to used my hands to wash the leafs so as to reduce the bitterness from it.

• Then I did boiled under high heat for close to 15 minutes then stopped, changed the water then put in new water and boil again for 10 minutes.

• I then did final washing.

• After washing I had to cook the meat I was using (beef), which I cooked separately in a different pot when it was cooked I turn off the heat, it was time to prepare my spice.

I did used;

 Country onions (sorry I don’t know the English name).

 Salt

 Maggi

 Oil(palm oil)

 Garlic and ginger.

• I then put the washed bitter leaf , meat and all my spice at once and cooked again for 10-15 minutes. Yummy my bitter leaf soup is go to go.

How I did prepare my Fufu corn

• After grinding my corn to have flour.

• I then put water on heat to boil while doing that I had to mix some of the flour in water to have a homogeneous solution. Growing up I use to see mom do so but I think it because flour in boiled water does not mix so as to have your Fufu looking good I mix small portion in cold water then start cooking it before I add the whole flour.