Nutrition
Dzenkple
Red-Velvet-Cake
Dzenkple/Akpledze is one of the numerous Akple recipes of the Ewes.
It is cooked with stew to gain itsreddish colour, hence the name Dzenkple literally Red Akple.
Ingredients
2 kilograms of Palm nuts
1 pound of meat (steamed)
3 large crabs
Herrings
1 large onion
4 tomatoes
3 garden eggs
4 scotch bonnet pepper
1 tablespoonful of ground ginger
Roasted corn flour
Red beans (boiled)
Method for making Dzenkple
-Wash palm nuts and pour them into a saucepan.
-Add water and some green local peas to it and boil for an hour. Check if the coat of the palm nut slips off the nut when rubbed with your fingers. (That means it is ready).
-Pound the palm nuts, add water and sieve to separate the chaff and nuts from the liquid after adding water.
-Put another saucepan on the fire and add your steamed meat with its stock. Also add the tomatoes, chopped onions, tin tomatoes, ginger and salt.
-Sieve the palm nut mixture again into the saucepan on the fire and stir.
-Leave it to cook for some time.
-Boil your garden eggs and pepper in another small saucepan.
-Blend the garden eggs, pepper and tomatoes, sieve it and pour into the soup on fire.
-Let it boil for a while and add your crabs and herrings.
-Allow it to boil for some time and taste to see if it is ready.
-If it is ready, remove it from the fire and set aside.
-Put another saucepan on the fire and pour some of your palm nut soup into it. Add some crabs and herrings.
-With a wooden spoon, stir the roasted corn flour into the palm nut soup and stir consistently for some time.
-Leave it to cook for a while and serve.
Nutrition
Coconut yam porridge
Ingredients
-½ tuber yam
-Leftover stew substitute with fresh pepper mix
-Seasoning
-3 tablespoonfuls of salt
– 3 tablespoonfuls of coconut milk
-Half bottle of palm oil
– 2 tablespoonfuls of pepper
-3 tablespoonfuls of dried shrimp
Preparation
-Add hot boiling water to the dried shrimps and cover for about 10 minutes and then rinse clean with cool water.
-Peel yam and cut into chunks, wash and rinse clean.
-Add yam pieces to a pan and place on medium heat.
Add palm oil, pepper, coconut milk and little water just enough to cover the yam or at the same level as the yam.
-Add seasoning and salt, cover the pan with a lid and leave to cook on low heat.
-After five minutes, add the washed shrimps and continue to cook on low heat till yam is soft.
-Using a wooden ladle, mash yam into pieces but not to puree, leave some yam chunks if you desire.
-Check for salt and seasoning.
-Cook for another three-five minutes and take off the heat.
Source: myactivekitchen.com
Nutrition
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Regina,
Bubiashie
