Special Yam Balls
Special Yam Balls

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, special yam balls. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Peel and cut the yam tuber into medium cubes. Rinse the yam cubes and place in a sizeable pot. Pour enough water to about the same level as the yam cubes, add the seasoning cube and black pepper and start cooking on medium heat.

Special Yam Balls is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Special Yam Balls is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook special yam balls using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Special Yam Balls:
  1. Take Half a tuber of yam
  2. Make ready 1 onion bulb
  3. Get 1 green pepper
  4. Take 5 atarodo peppers
  5. Make ready 3 big tomatoes
  6. Get 1 carrot
  7. Prepare 1/8 of a cabbage
  8. Make ready 2 spoons curry and thyme
  9. Take 2 seasoning cubes
  10. Make ready 1 spoon crayfish
  11. Get to taste Salt
  12. Get 1 egg
  13. Take 1/2 cup flour
  14. Prepare 2 cups vegetable oil

Yam Ball is another way to enjoy sweet yam. Ji Mmiri Oku (Yam Pepper Soup for New Mums) This is the special yam pepper soup that Igbo new mothers enjoy right after giving birth. It helps clean up the uterus. This is no ordinary pepper soup!

Steps to make Special Yam Balls:
  1. Peel the yam, cut into small quarters and wash thoroughly. Put into a clean pot, add water to cover the yam, salt and boil till the yam is soft and mashable.
  2. Put a small pan on the stove, add 4 spoons of vegetable oil. Once the oil heats up, add the chopped onions, tomatoes and atarodo peppers. Stir fry for 3 mins then add salt, 1 seasoning cube, 1 spoon of crayfish, curry and thyme. Stir fry for another 2 mins then set aside.
  3. In a clean bowl, mash the cooked yam with a potato masher.
  4. Chop up the cabbage, carrot and green pepper and add to the mashed yam. Transfer the stir fried tomato mix to the mashed yam.
  5. Wash your hands and mix the yam thoroughly.
  6. Meanwhile in a clean plate, pour the flour, add a pinch of salt, 1 seasoning cube, curry and thyme. Mix with a spoon.
  7. In another plate, crack in the egg and whisk thoroughly.
  8. Put a frying pan on the stove and add vegetable oil.
  9. Scoop the yam mix with your hands and roll into balls.
  10. Roll the balls in the egg and then in the flour then deep fry.
  11. Repeat this process till all the yam balls have been perfectly fried.
  12. Enjoy with hot coffee or beverage of choice.

Yam and Vegetable Sauce (Ji Abubo) Read and cook delicious yam balls for your family. Yam is a vegetable that resembles a long potato. It is widely spread in Nigeria as a food which can be bought everywhere and the price is always reasonable, so you may afford to buy it. The crunchiness of these balls contracted with the creamy, chewy inside is a package of texture and flavor experience. See my special sauce recipe here.

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