Pounded Yam with Vegetable and Melon Soup.

Bolus Foods are soft, roundish mass or lump,especially of chewed food that are prepared and eaten with different types of Soups. Example of the bolus food is Pounded yam with vegetable and melon soup. The Pounded yam is prepared by pounding boiled yam in a mortar using pestle. The soup can come with assorted meat such as stock fish, goat meat, bush meat, snail etc. In the village the food can equally go with palm wine and other drinks. Pounded yam is a respected food among the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. The best way to enjoy the food is by using hand instead of cutlery. The food is made up of all the essential nutrients.

Mortar and Pestle

Pounded Yam with vegetable soup.