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.

Jollof Rice with Plantain and Chicken.

Cooking African food is not as difficult as many people think. I find pleasure in cooking because my mother made it a point of duty that whenever she is cooking the children must be in the kitchen with her. So despite being a man, I can cook various food from Yoruba tribe in Nigeria.

The responsibility of cooking in a household is on the woman or wife but my mother is of the opinion that man must be able to cook for himself and his home when the wife is indisposed or not available.

So what a woman can do in the kitchen, a man should be able to do better. I will be explaining how to cook various African food and the ingredients required with the health benefit will be enumerated carefully

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