Thick goat meat pottage recipe

Miriam Isoun and H.O. Antonio

Ingredients                                                  Handy measure

Unripe plantain                                           4 medium

Yam                                                            4-2 cm slices

Goat                                                           4 mgt

Dry fish                                                      1 medium

Palm oil, optional                                       4 table spoons

Gbafilo                                                        1

Emilo                                                          4 seeds

Enge                                                          3 pods

Lemon grass                                             Few blades

Dry crayfish                                               3 tablespoons

Large dry crayfish                                     20

Dry pepper                                                To taste

Directions

  1. Put goat meat and salt and sliced onion in pot and cook on low heat with minimal water for 15 minutes. Peel yam and cut into half.
  2. Peel and cut plantain in to three pieces each. Grind spices. Add water to goat meat and boil 3 minutes. Add lemon grass, dry fish, prawns and pepper. Season.
  3. Add plantain, cook 10 minutes and then add yam and cook till soft. Remove lemon grass and add ground spices, reducing the heat so as to ensure it simmers for about 15 minutes.
  4. Transfer the yam and plantain into a dish.
  5. Pour liquid into another plate. Pour red palm oil into another bowl and serve the pottage.

Boiled ripe plantain recipe

Boiled ripe plantain recipe courtesy of The Nigerian Cookbook by Miriam Isoun and H.O. Antonio

Directions

  1. Peel the ripe plantain and cut each finger into 2 or 3 pieces. Cover the plantain with salted water.
  2. Boil until it is easily pierced with a fork (10-15 minutes). Serve on its own or with bean stew or a leafy green vegetable stew.
  3. Try slicing it into pieces 1 cm thick and boiling it for five minutes, or until tender.
  4. Serve with butter or palm oil and salt as a side dish with rice or beans and meat or fish stew. Boiled ripe plantain goes very well with bean dishes.

Steamed corn with ripe plantain recipe

Steamed corn with ripe plantain recipe courtesy of The Nigerian Cookbook by Miriam Isoun and H.O. Antonio

Ingredients                                                 Handy measure

Fresh corn                                                 2 cups

Ripe plantain                                             2 medium

Onion                                                         1 small

Dry pepper                                                1 teaspoon

Fresh shrimp                                             ½ cup

Stock cubes                                              3

Salt                                                            To taste

Directions

  1. Wash corn well and pound till the paste is fine and smooth.
  2. Peel plantain and cut into pieces, then pound. Mix with the corn.
  3. Grind the onion and mix with the plantain and corn mixture. Add stock cubes and stir.
  4. Add palm oil, shrimps, salt and enough water to make a thick cream constituency.
  5. Scoop into leaves or foil and wrap.
  6. Steam for 40 minutes or until cooked.