Creativewriting: Preparing Typical Akwa Ibom Food (Usong ikpong)

Preparing Efere Usong ikpong (pounded cocoyam)

Hi guys !

A warm greetings to you all my amiable steemian friends from my motherland, is good to have you all today as I will be sharing my post with you of how I prepare a typical Akwa Ibom special delicacy Efere Usong ikpong (Pounded cocoyam with white soup) This is a typical traditional dish of old, but very healthy and nutritional to the body,due to modernization cocoyam can be processed to cocoyam flour, let usually contain oxalate depending on the variety used, oxalate an itching part that should be denatured by cooking or adding itching resistance.

Here are the recipe involved;
• ikpong (cocoyam)
• fish
• Periwinkle
• lobster
• thickener
• pepper
• crayfish
• stockfish
• beef
• Mushroom

Method of preparation

Step 1

Get your cocoyam peeled, washed and sliced in into small size then add water and Cook it to soften as shown below 👇 👇

cocoyam peels	unpeeled cocoyam

Step 2
Cook the cocoyam until its soft and then pound it with mortar and pistle as seen below 👇👇

Pounding the cooked cocoyam	cooked cocoyam

Here's the pounded cocoyam very smooth

Step 3
The process of soup preparation , gather all your soup items as mention earlier steam them and get ready to make your soup done.

After properly steaming your soup ingredients, add your a drop of palm oil and lastly put thickener to thicken the soup.

I would love to draw my curtain here by showing you how the food went and here's how it was served 👇👇

Efere Usong ikpong is ready.