Thank God its Friday.....
We are sharing another delicious recipe today.I have eaten this one before and when i did,i couldnt stop visiting where i ate it......This meal rocks!
Hi Stellalicious and my fellow bvs,this is to help you enjoy your weekend,this food is not for a lazy man..o cos the work no be here.
Recipe for Ekpangnkukwo
Cocoyam
Wateryam
Tender Cocoyam leaf(nkukwo)
Periwinkle
Crayfish
Dry/smoked fish
Pomo/stockfish/meat
Scent leaf
Pepper
Oil
Salt to taste
Maggi.
1) Peel your Cocoyam and wateryam
2) Grate both the Cocoyam and Wateryam with a grater,then mix them together.Add a Little salt and maggi while mixing it.
3) cut the nkukwo,to a size you can use to wrap the already mixed coco/wateryam and put in a bowl of water, add salt to the water, this is to help prevent it from itching your throat incase the Cocoyam leaf you bought is the itchy type. You can also use green leaf to wrap incase you can't get the nkukwo to buy.
4) pour the washed periwinkle in a pot,add a little salt,maggi and palm oil .
5) state wraping the ekpang with the leaf bit by bit till you are done.
6)after wraping, put your crayfish,pepper,dryfish n meat inside the pot, DO NOT STIR.
At this stage,you boil water,once it's hot,your pour the hot water into the pot of ekpang till it covers everything then put it on fire.
While your Ekpang is on fire,you slice your scent leaf and keep,its the last thing you ll put before bringing it down.
Once your ekpang starts cooking well,you stir it with a turning stick.
Allow it cook for like 20minutes.
Add plenty crayfish,pepper, maggi and salt to taste,palm oil then your scent leaf.
At this point,your ekpangnkukwo is ready to be served so you bring it down.
Ekpangnkukwo is ready. Like I said no be food for lazy people..o
Have a wonderful weekend
Bv Blessing Jackson
I just threw up my breakfast. Yuck
ReplyDeleteCocoyam leaves?
DeleteCocoyam meshed with wateryam?
Periwinkles still in their shell?
And the final product looks like pupu (pardon my french).
Mba! E no enter!
I think it's just relative to the poster's place of origin
My sweet mother
DeleteI remember those days she had time and she made this for us.
Heavenly!
I'l make this, this weekend.
lol, are u preggie?
DeleteLOL
DeleteBut you lick your mouth when they eat in Merlin and Game of thrones.
DeleteI can't even imagine eating this.i think i am going to throw up just seeing this.
DeleteDon't mind me please.
Not a nice comment at all. You are not cool at all. You are very disrespectful of other people's ways of live. Watch your behaviour
DeleteWhat is this???
DeleteOK bye
Who will mind you? Who will offer that expensive and delicious meal to that pit toilet you call mouth
DeleteThank God its Friday. Food don ready o
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
Okay, I'll share a simple recipe with you guys today. Hehehe, won't be stingy anymore. I call this dish potato casserole. It's one of my family's favourite, so here goes.
Delete8 big Irish potatoes (diced)
250g shredded chicken or less.
Bouillon cubes as desired
2 green bell pepper (julienned or diced)
2 big carrots (chopped)
1 bulk spring onion (chopped)
A handful of green peas
A handful of runner beans
2 large eggs
2 cooking spoonful oil or as desired
1tsp Thyme
1tsp curry
2 tsp powder pepper red or black
A bulb of onions
2 cloves of garlic.
Peel, dice and boil potatoes until soft. Sieve out water. Prepare your already seasoned chicken. Shred it using a food processor or blender. Set aside.
In a pot, heat up already boiled potatoes with a little liquid preferably chicken broth; about 8 TBS. While this is simmering, stir fry your vegetables including the shredded chicken for about a minute.
Transfer the vegetables to the potato pot. Fold it in. Add your seasonings and spices. Break in eggs and stir quickly until eggs are fully cooked. that's it! Now serve.
This is the first time I'm putting this recipe in writing so please pardon any error.
There are 2 variations of this dish. The one above and another using only tomatoes and meat. Will share that some other time. Try this first.
This food is not really that yummy...I have eaten it in a friends house and I didn't enjoy it...
ReplyDeleteI end up throwing up after the meal...
Looks like purge
DeleteI don't like it one bit I wonder what is yummy about this food
DeleteThen it means your friend doesn't know to cook ekpang. Eat it from good cooks n testify
DeleteYour friend nor sabi cook. Some people can even make stella throw up after eating jollof rice. Just Negodu!
DeleteWhich kin food be this?
ReplyDeleteD food no look good for my eye Sha.nice recipe though!
ReplyDeleteSame here o,doesn't look appetizing,especially with all the stress involved.Don't think I'll try it,not a fan of periwinkle.
DeleteErmmmmm *lips sealed*
ReplyDeletePoster what kind of ekpang did u cook na?
DeleteWhen your mum was cooking u obviosly was never in the kitchen..
1stly this ekpang has lost all the nkukwo that should have made it look appealing.
2ndly u don't stir ekpang this much mbok.
3rdly always bring to boil properly and a wooden spoon or efa is best used to stir systematically,u don't stir ekpang like u'll soup..
In all,u try sha...
If u ate ekpang nkukwo and threw up then na learner cook am!
Eka your head dey there mbok, you can eat Ekpang and not love it those that are saying they want to throw up, I pray you get to test it from a good cook in your lifetime and I promise you won't regret it, now I feel like cooking Ekpang now
DeleteAnd for the poster this your Ekpang is looking like what they call Oto
Eka your head dey there mbok, you can eat Ekpang and not love it those that are saying they want to throw up, I pray you get to test it from a good cook in your lifetime and I promise you won't regret it, now I feel like cooking Ekpang now
DeleteAnd for the poster this your Ekpang is looking like what they call Oto
Franchescaedet are you from Nkporo or Edda?
DeleteGod bless u Eka,no be ekpang be ds mbok ds is obviously asa-iwa. U stirred it toooo much dt 1 cud barely kw wat d outcome of ds food. Next tym dnt stir ds mch! Anyway,op it's nt ur cocoyam & water yam.
DeleteGod bless u Eka,no be ekpang be ds mbok ds is obviously asa-iwa. U stirred it toooo much dt 1 cud barely kw wat d outcome of ds food. Next tym dnt stir ds mch! Anyway,op it's nt ur cocoyam & water yam.
DeleteI'm a cross riverian o but I hardly prepare this meal..
ReplyDeleteLike the poster said, no be food for lazy people..
If my grandma prepares ekpan for you eh, you'd lick the plate clean..
Don't think I will like it....doesn't look yummy to me abegi
ReplyDeleteI don't touch sea food.
DeleteNever.
I like Ikokore sha since I learnt it from a cook somewhere behind Dunlop in Ikeja and Neimeth back then, the joint branded by Maggi before you burst out of the highway to Sango.Don't know if the joint still exists.
The Yoruba lady came over to teach me all sorts.
My love to Sisi Tanwa. You rock Ma.
Inyama. I've always hated ifokore (that's d name in yoruba)
ReplyDeleteIkokore.
DeleteSome call it ifokore, some ikokore. Don't come and disturb me again.
DeleteIfokore is only water yam no cocoyam.
DeleteWhy can't you take to correction? Na wa o! It's actually Ikokore.
DeleteLOL eka is it sunshine again?
DeleteLooool... dnt coman disturb me again.. like anon came to knock on ur door..
DeleteOya make una no vex.
DeleteThanks Blessing your head correct kpa! I love this food like kilode.
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ReplyDeleteNOW I MISS IKOM! CROSS RIVER STATE..... CRBC EX CORPER/PRESENTER????
ReplyDeleteANY CROSSRIVERIAN HERE?????
Yup...
DeleteHalla!
DeleteAre u gona add d periwinkle with its body? *confused face*
ReplyDeleteYes but after cutting, washing and cooking it
Deletelol... no b only body. English kill me make i dey
DeleteHmmmm ok o!
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ReplyDeleteEka Joyless a.k.a Sabiatu, it's IKOKORE.
DeleteSHARONNA
Tnx for sharing...
ReplyDeleteLooks one kain though... I have none to share ... *moonwalk outta this post*
ReplyDeleteEwwwwww! Can't eat that shit.
ReplyDeleteCocoyam? I hate Cocoyam.
Loool
DeleteAbeg, e be like shit for picture. Mtchewww
ReplyDeleteThose days when my mum enjoys cooking for her babies, she made this severally.
ReplyDeleteThe picture alone is delicious....ummmmmmmhhhh...somebody invite me over for ekpan..lunch or dinner
Yea babe
DeleteMothers rock!
Big time!!!
DeleteI've tasted this food once. Loved it!!
ReplyDeleteNot yummy to me oooo! Will pass!
ReplyDeleteWhy the food come look like ehmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteNahhhhh!!! I can't eat this. Maybe the pics didn't do justice to it. The periwinkle looks like termite.
ReplyDeleteLol I had to zoom to make sure they weren't termites
DeleteLmao
DeleteLooks nice I'd ask my help to do it.
ReplyDeleteAsk him or her if they know how first maka afo osisa
Deletelooks like this ijebu food IKORKORE!
ReplyDeleteIt's almost d d same. The difference is d periwinkle and d leave.
DeleteI have tasted both.
And cocoyam.
DeleteInyama
ReplyDeleteNice looking pottage.
ReplyDeleteIs the leaf used in cooking it eaten together with it?
Food name : Indomie.
ReplyDeleteIngredients : Indomie (as much as you fit chop, some people dey chop like 5 hungryman)
Carrot
Green pepper
Red pepper (as much as you dey chop, some fit chop indomie 50 naira, ata gungun 1500)
Olive oil (a tablespoon)
Steps: Put a tablespoon of olive oil to your already dried fryingpan set on heat, pour in the already diced carrot and green pepper.
2. Tear the indomie sachet, retrieve the spice and pour in the frying vegetable. Allow to fry for sometime.
3. Add a little water to the fried vegetables and put in your indomie. Leave to boil till tender.
4.) Switch off gas, stove, firewood or whatever source of heat you have used to cook. Make sure you do to avoid running helter skelter during the course of the meal.
Eat straight from the frying pan. (Trust me, its sweeter)
Hahahahaha
DeleteEat straight from the pan, I swear there isn't any other better way
DeleteHahahahahahaha...
DeleteOh God!...
I like Indomie
DeleteNice recipe though
Kolo!
DeleteLol,correct!!
DeleteToo much fry fry no gud for body...Hian!
DeleteLMAO!
DeleteI can't stop laffing, "firewood" eat straight from the frying pan... You are hilarious man!
DeleteLwkmd! Bless you#
DeleteLol. You are funny.
DeleteStella Weldon o
DeleteYou swallowed my comment
Lmao
DeleteLooooool..
DeleteAfo mu ooooo
DeleteBwhahahhahahahahahaha..
Comic relief.
DeleteThanks.
All these nyamanyama wey una dey eat ehn..
ReplyDeleteMe I eat food based on the look o and this one no go at all...
Lmao...as in ehn! That is so me. I eat food based on the look... If it looks disgusting... Madam...I will pass...not interested biko
Deleteblog visitor,u tried but in the whole cooking u lost the nkukwo amidst the whole process. This is the way i cook mine: I pour desired amount of oil in the pot first and start my wrapping of the cocoyam/wateryam/cassava. I place in the pot as i wrap. ie. systematically arrange inside the pot of oil. I then add my crayfish,fish etc whatever I'm using before putting on the fire to boil being careful not to over stir so as not to loosen the wrapping. then I add my already washed periwinkles n seasoning. I'll just boil till its done. And that's it. I kinda like it wrapped n not too watery.
ReplyDeleteThe best way is to add the periwinkle at s bottom of the pot with oil, so the ekpan doesn't burn while cooking, poster is correct
DeleteDon't understand, so you guys eat the cocoyam leaf with the pottage?
DeleteGBG... my thots exactly. Was reading on to understand if someone would mention this. And periwinkle? The day I mistakenly chewed on it inside efo, it was like stone na.. what do people enjoy in it? I'll never understand
DeleteLooks yummy but the work no be here o.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I heard of this food was on Tinsel. I think its the calabar version of ikokore. I'll pass on this one.
ReplyDeleteBimpe's food to hook Soji right?
DeleteYea same here
DeleteEverything about the food is outright disgusting. Is that a bowl of bees mixed with palm oil? Disgusting!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite meals. The work wey dey fir the preparation no be beans. Na the grating, abi na the wrapping wey dey take time. In the end , u will forget the amout of hardwork put in because its very delicious..
ReplyDeleteNB: please do not start cooking this dish when u are very hungry cos hunger go tie u for neck like bowtie before u go finish am.
Bon apetite
Back then, whenever mum wants to cook this food, i'm always excited so il do all the preparations.
DeleteEven if it's to go to the market 10times which I hated, il willingly go. lol
Yummy!
ReplyDeleteThanks I will pass.
ReplyDeleteMaynne, been hearing about this food for ages.
ReplyDeleteNeed to try it out sooner than later.
Meanwhile, I ate Akidi (ones still in their pods) and yam for the first time, yesterday.
And for someone who doesn't really like anything that looks like vegetables,but just has to eat them,(yeah, yeah, I know) ,i'm hooked to this meal.
So preparing it again this week.
Akidi na ji agworo agwo, with lots of crayfish, onion and pepper.
Dayummm!!
#WhiteDiamondOut
Oh my gosh. Stop making remember home.
DeleteWow!...
DeleteThat's my meal...but can't find it here in Lagos...
Chai
DeleteGood old days
My mum in law is Ibo,so she sabi cook all these ibo foods.
DeleteAkidi n ji abùbò
Linda just go to oyinbo mkt you will find them. Very nutritious
DeleteWhat is this? #sorry
ReplyDeleteLol, @ no be lazy man food. Who has time to started preparing Ekpang Nkukwo in this busy lagos.
ReplyDeleteEkpang in my house is only had during christmas holiday when we all travel home,
I remember my sisters who are used to been in the office by 7:30am, waking up by 5am in the village looking for what to do.( That is when this food of life comes up)
I think must times they even forget were they are, the way they wake up early as if there will be mad traffic from their rooms to the Kitchen .
This christmas I promise to buy sleeping tablet and put them in everyone's drink after dinner everynight until we return
So help me God. Lol
This your English carry weight!!! Kilode, Na by force to comment?? To think u passed through some form of educational training /institution. Sad
DeleteI jump and pass
ReplyDeleteI love it thanks for sharing Blessing.
ReplyDeleteLooks appetising but I jump am pass to avoid ECOMOG pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteI like the receip but the meal; naaaaa
ReplyDeleteIf you taste am, you go off
DeleteGood for na money..
ReplyDeleteDo you eat the cocoyam leaf? At what point is it removed? I ate this food when I served in akwa ibom it was really nice, but like you said it's not food for the lazy so I didn't bother learning....
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing ....
DeleteI didnt really pay attention d first n only time I saw it bn prepared.cos I felt it was too long a process.
But now I am willing to learn.
No,u remove d leaves wen it's done n just before u serve d dish.
This dish is d TRUTH believe me y'all.
Generals wife, no u dont remove any leaves,hmmmmm. U be forming u know it all
DeleteGenerals wife, no u dont remove any leaves,hmmmmm. U be forming u know it all
DeleteI'll pass on this.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't look inviting. I will eat all the ingredients make dem go form the ekpang for my Belle, the ingredients have more appealing look.
ReplyDeleteAbeg who ever wrapped it didnt do justice to the wrapping i can wrap better abeg ,besides it needs a lot of patient is sure not for a lazy person ,it takes time to wrap neatly .faster on ugu leaf,long time i ate this ,i miss Niger sha
ReplyDeleteNative rice:
ReplyDeleteIngredients: peppersoup spice,ghana pepper,knon cubes,scent leaves,onions,dry stock fish,red oil,salt,meat sauce. Its almost ready. Yummy!
Always proud to come from Akwa -Cross. Ekpang nkukwo my favourite.
ReplyDeleteTaa
ReplyDeleteNo matter how you explain it online, anybody who is not Akwa Ibomite/Cross Riverian won't be able to prepare it except the person watches you cook it physically.
Looks funny!!
ReplyDeleteEwwwwwwwwww I feel lyk vomiting. For does wey de eat dat tin Una de try.
ReplyDeleteVery nice
ReplyDeleteChoi...see yummy food o.
ReplyDeleteBv Chef pls can I come to ur house?
Pls ayam serious.
Choi...can't see straight anymore.
Aunty Chef, me 2*in my tiniest cutest voice*
DeleteI always count myself lucky whenever I go to visit and d person has ekpang nkukwo to offer me...I usually savour d meal, thereafter bless d person and d persons generations...lol.
ReplyDeleteBut I hate it when I walk into someone s house when the tying is just about to.start...I usually wish I could rewind my legs to quickly take me outta there.....hahahahaha
Saying this is a delicious meal is an understatement.
And the origin of this food can be traced to the efiks in cross river state of Nigeria
#proudlyEfik #amanaisongeyenefik #efikedimbakara #lovemesomeefik
OK bye.
Where are the 'Ohafians' in the house?? This is also their native meal too.
DeleteIts Arochukwu's native food too, we call it Ikoko so delish!
DeleteStella post my comment o
ReplyDeleteThat's good though not a fan.
ReplyDeleteThe poster didn't wrap it properly. Looks yucky.
ReplyDeleteMy baby wouldn't take pap cos it isn't sweet. After much brain storming. I made the pap, added her formula and blended the pap with a banana. Baby loved it.
ReplyDeleteYou can add any blended fruit to your baby's pap, makes it more nutritious and tastes better. I've tried avocado, banana, apple puree, pear puree, strawberry, blueberry, grapes etc, baby loved all except strawberry which has a really tart taste. I give pap or oats and fruit for breakfast, pureed veggies and meat(carrot, potatoes, brocoli, spinach,peas etc) for lunch and pureed fruit and yoghurt for dinner (unsweetened natural yoghurt) favorite mix is blue berry, avocado or banana. My baby loves it all.
DeleteMbok obiong ke dung mmi. Ekpang i like.
ReplyDeleteThe periwinkle size is too small, i like the big ones with spikes on it.
ReplyDeleteNo tnks!
ReplyDeleteama just pass....
Just like ikokore ijebu. Mmmmmmh yummy
ReplyDeleteOne man's meat is another man's poison, I will pass.
ReplyDeleteBesides cocoyam is a big no no for me..
Ikokore in ijebu, me like it.
ReplyDeleteHmmm looks so yummy but the process of making too long abeg
ReplyDeleteAdd correct bush meat, and you'll be singing oh lala. I loveeee this food. First food I was offered when I got to Ikom for youth service. Utondu!
ReplyDeleteSeen this food once in its preparation stage. Looked disgusting then and even more disgusting when fully done. Not my thing but well done to you!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could try it some time
ReplyDeletei have ate dis food once, nice though
ReplyDeleteThanks but i'll pass! Cocoyam ke n water yam 4 dat matter! Babe can't even eat new yam talk more of water yam. Cocoyam is a thickner as far as i'm concern!
ReplyDeleteWow...so much work required.
ReplyDeleteMade mine with ugu leaf, it was very nice...
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't look sweet oo
ReplyDelete....I must be up the duff cus the moment I clicked on the picture, I felt nauseous. I'll just read comments.
ReplyDeleteSomeone sent a full flask of this to me once.
ReplyDeleteJeez,I couldn't eat in. I had to give it to my oga's driver,Edet. Till today,Edet asks if the woman "go bring Ikpan again"
Nice one Buh I will pass...
ReplyDeleteThose who wants to eat, enjoy ojere...
...hohohohoho
# side eyes # @ you
ReplyDeleteEka Joy, it is called IKOKORE, nothing like Ifokore. EOD
ReplyDeleteShebi u have seen where someone said ifokore is wateryam. Now take ur 'nothing like ifokore' back.
DeleteActually its called ikokore,then ifoko for short.
DeleteSherry's Daughter
BLESSING...i dey vex 4 u oh, when are u coming back to Lag ?
ReplyDeleteNice recipe.
ReplyDeleteThe beloved One says
ReplyDeleteBVs!!! please if you cannot say something nice about food recipes etc posted, please don't say anything at all. How can you liken this to poo and other such nasties? Not nice, not good at all. This is food please, condemn not
The Beloved One says
ReplyDeleteLovely! Thanks for the recipe