How I Prepared Cornmeal (Tuwo), Beans Soup (Gbegiri) and Beef Soup | 07-04-2021 | by @fredquantum

fredquantum (76)in SteemFoods • 5 years ago (edited)

Cornmeal (Tuwo) is not complete until you have it accompanied with soup made from beans and beef soup. This meal is a very popular one in my country (Nigeria), western Africa. I will be showing you how I made everything from the scratch. Be my guest on this till the end as you are just about to learn more about foods.

Cornmeal (Tuwo)

Cornmeal is a very popular food in the south-west region of my country (Nigeria) which has the local name Tuwo and just as the name implies, it's a meal made from finely grinded dry corn, otherwise, powder corn.

_{Holding my served Tuwo (Cornmeal)}

The Ingredient for the cornmeal is corn powder but I stated at the beginning that the meal isn't complete until you prepare the special soup for it.

_{Corn powder}

Preparation Steps

Fill the pot with a small quantity of water. Allow it to attain the boiling point.
Make a paste of the corn powder.

_{The corn powder paste}

Pour the paste corn powder into the water and subsequently add corn powder to it to make it firm.
Stir till it get solidified.

_{Stirring the corn powder in water}

_{Thoroughly stirred corn powder}

Cornmeal ready to be served with soup.

_{Cornmeal ready}

Beans soup (Gbegiri) for Cornmeal

This is a special soup used for eating the cornmeal, it's a delicious soup and it's easy to prepare. I will be showing the ingredients needed for this soup and the cooking steps below.

Beans soup(Gbegiri) ingredients

Brown-eyed or black-eyed beans.
Palm oil.
Stock cube.
Salt.

Preparation Steps

Get the desired quantity of the beans depending on how much you want the soup to be.

_{0.15kg of brown-eyed beans}

Peel off the beans' coating. This is easily done by soaking it in cold water to soften the coating.

_{Peeled beans}

Soak in cold water for about 1hr for easy cooking.

_{Soaked beans}

Pour inside a pot and cook on low heat for about 1hr till the beans is softened enough for blending. Note: Keep the cooking water on the same level with the beans, such that you have to fill in water from time to time throughout the cooking period, this is done to avoid watery soup.

_{Peeled beans set on fire}

_{Cooked beans}

Allow it to cool and blend it using any mechanical means (electric blender) or manual means; the aim is to crush the beans to the smallest granules.

_{Blending with manual means}

_{Blended beans}

Sieve the blended beans.

_{Sieving the blended beans}

_{Sieved beans soup}

Pour into a pot. Add 1 teaspoon of palm oil, 2 teaspoon of pepper powder, 1 stock cube and salt.

_{Ingredients added}

_{Beans soup ready to be cooked}

Allow it to cook for 5mins.

_{Beans soup ready}

Beef Soup

I have my beef soup prepared earlier and the ingredients are; Tomatoes and pepper and onions (blended together) with seasonings and cooked for 45mins. Finally add the beef to the soup, then the beef soup ready.

_{Beef soup}

The cornmeal, beans soup and beef soup is ready. Serve altogether in the same plate or container, get your eating spoon and enjoy the meal.

_{Cornmeal fully ready}

_{Holding the meal for selfie}

Cornmeal (Tuwo) is a very healthy meal and I hope you'd give it a try someday. Thanks for reading.

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Written by; @fredquantum

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5 years ago in SteemFoods by fredquantum (76)

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