If I am asked to choose my most preferred vegetable soup swallow, I will choose fufu, but traditionally, pounded yam is the best. Explore my pounded yam and vegetable soup recipe below.

Pounded yam and vegetable soup is a nice combo in Nigeria. Senior citizens usually enjoy it. Gen Z is not very cool with this combination; they prefer garri and semo.

How do you prepare this royal combination? Perhaps you have no idea since pounded yam is not really your thing. However, the discourse below will guide you but don’t forget, the same vegetable soups analyzed in my previous articles are the ones we are referring to here.

Thus, since you already know how to prepare vegetable soup, my emphasis will be on pounded yam preparation, though I have posted on that too.

We are keeping this recipe short because so many have been done on the two delicacies, thus we move at once to the ingredients used in preparing pounded yam and vegetable soup.

Ingredients

Here are the major ingredients for pounded yam and vegetable soup:

1. Yam

2. Palm oil

3. Vegetable

4. Waterleaf

5. Crayfish

6. Tomato

7. Pepper

8. Salt

9. Maggi

10. Kpomo

11. Kpanla

12. Meat

13. Onion

14. Ogiri

15. Fish

Cooking Instructions

For the two delicacies, here are the steps involved in preparing them. Kindly adhere to the instructions strictly and you will definitely get the stuff properly done.

The steps are:

1. Cut the yam into small cubes with salt and pound to perfection.

2. In a pot on heat add your palm oil, after about 30 seconds add your onions and fry for a bit then add the ogiri and stir.

3. Add your blended (tomato, pepper, and onion mix) and stir for a bit. Then add your crayfish salt and maggi. Add your kpanla fish at this time.

4. After cooking for a bit, add your kpomo (I used soft ones that’s why I added them at this time) if it’s the hard ones add them earlier, please.

5. After a few minutes, add your ugu leaves, stir, and cover for a few minutes. Turn off the heat and serve.

6. Can be used with Pounded yam, boiled yam, boiled unripe plantain, Eba, Semovita, you name it.

7. I chose this method because it is quick and easy and I didn’t cook the leaves for long so it’s still fresh and crunchy the way I love it.

In conclusion, pounded yam and vegetable soup is an exciting Nigerian food combination. Kindly follow the recipe above. Do not forget to drop us a comment in the section below.