First mix a little quantity with cold water (watery) and put on the stove, let it boil very well as you continue to stir, boiling cooks the starch and helps your final fufu to hold together. Let it boil and change in colour a little as if the starch is overcooked before you start pouring in more powder and stirring to desired softness. .
See step by step cooking pictures below:
Millet fufu can be Can be served with all Nigerian soups
1. History: Fufu/Fufuo means "mash or mix" in Twi (language of the Akan ethnic groups in Ghana) and is a specific staple food for the Akans in southern part of Ghana and Ivory Coast, West Africa but now commonly features in many West and Central African countries in different textures but not every doughy African foods are Fufu.
ReplyDeleteEg. is saying in Twi "fufu 3to (mash spicy ripped plantains mixed with palm oil eaten with peanuts) or fufu Gari Foto (mix spicy Gari with palm oil"
Fufuo (also means white and derived from the white color of cassava) is soft doughy swallow food made out of boiled cassava mixed with plantains or coco yams and pounded together in a mortar (waduro) with a pestle (woma) unique to the Akans, and only eaten with liquid soups (nkwan) such as, Light soup (Nkrakra nkwan), Abenkwan (palm nut soup), Nkatenkwan (peanut butter soup), Abunabun soup (green vegetable) with meats, fishes, snails, crabs, mushrooms and okro (nkruma) on the side. Fufuo/fufu is usually served in Asanka or Ayowaa (an earthware bowl; black or red in color) with the liquid soups poured on the Fufuo/fufu to look like an island which helps reduce the stickiness while eating.
*Right way to eat Fufu:
In between both the index and middle fingers cut a piece of the Fufuo/fufu like a scissor, tap a hole in it, scoop the soup and swallow, never chew the Fufu in order to enjoy the taste of the soup while swallowing.
*Authentic Ghana Fufuo/fufu preparation ⬇️
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In the typical Akan region in Ghana, Fufuo is mostly use but Ghanaian businesses men used only the name Fufu when they processed the authentic Fufuo/Fufu into cassava/plantains /coco yam flour 1. https://youtu.be/SszPhlmWDJE 2. https://youtu.be/Z_XeI7n3aj8 some years ago and sold mainly in Ghana markets in most western countries such as America because they couldn't pound the Fufu just like they would in Ghana, as it's very noisy when pounding and it became popular among other Africans and parts of the Caribbean and now Nigerians are calling almost every African doughy foods as Fufu even though they have their names; Nigerian Pounded yam (Iyan), Akpu (fermented cassava dough), Amala, Eba, semolina, oatmeal, cabbage. Nigerian soup textures are considered stews in Ghana since Ghana soups are generally liquid texture which aide in swallowing the soft Ghana Fufuo/fufu.
2. watch this video ⬇️ https://youtu.be/CLeI7TAGe4Q on Channels Television, a Nigerian news media where a Nigerian man wrongly gave false information to the Nigerian public lying on Ghana 🇬🇠and claiming that Ghana's national Pona yams comes from Nigeria. *Pona yams are grown only in Ghana 🇬🇠and are usually medium in size, sweet taste, white with smooth outer skin texture and eaten as Ampesie (boiled cubes of yams, plantains, cocoyams, cassava etc) and eaten with stews in Ghana . ⬇️ Pona yams- https://youtu.be/JUbhz-TT22g