This week, our recipe is how to make sweet potato pottage. Sweet potato is a root vegetable that has a lot of health and nutritional benefits. In fact, school children invariably get a good amount of their daily Vitamin A when they eat Sweet potato.
This is one of my favorite meals because it is really easy to prepare, naturally sweet and rich in flavors and texture. It is a typical Nigerian dish featuring some of our local and native condiments such as crayfish and palm-oil. I hope you get the chance to try the recipe and enjoy it as well.
How To Make Sweet Potato Pottage
INGREDIENTS
- 5pcs sweet potato
- 1 cup of palm oil
- 1 bulb of onion
- 2 large tomatoes
- 2 Maggi Naija pot cubes
- 1 tbs of grinded pepper
- A handful of chopped Efinrin or spinach (substitute with other greens) (optional)
 METHOD
- Wash and peel potato skin
- Cut potato into bite size cubes and rinse.
- Place it in a pot with enough water covering it.
- Add your chopped onions, tomatoes and allow to boil.
- When the potato is soft, the water would have reduced a considerable bit.
- Add the palm oil.
- Put in the grinded pepper.
- Also add the Maggi Naija Pot cubes (*it is full of fish flavour with the unique combination of natural smoked fish, stockfish and crayfish to give soups and pottages that bottom-pot taste )
- If you are adding vegetable, wash your vegetable, chop and add to the pot.
- Stir with a wooden spoon
- Turn down the heat, the pottage should be thicker at this point.
- Finally, cover the pot and allow to simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- Serve hot
NOTE: Sweet potatoes are generally hard to peel although they get soft really quickly. We recommend using a large knife and gently apply your weight forward to drive the knife through the sweet potato.
If you desire more meat, you can add meat or beef to this recipe.
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