Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ekpang nkukwuo. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ekpang nkukwuo is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Ekpang nkukwuo is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

While Ikokore is only made with water yam, Ekpang Nkukwo is made with water yam and cocoyam and then wrapped in leaves. Some do say you can make it just the cocoyam, but Joy taught me to use both, but heavier on the cocoyam, and just a little water yam. Ekpang Nkwukwo is one of the Nigerian cocoyam recipes made with grated cocoyam, water yam, cocoyam leaves and periwinkle.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ekpang nkukwuo using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ekpang nkukwuo:

1. Make ready Medium sized water yam
2. Take 4 cocoyam
3. Take Periwinkle
4. Prepare Palm oil
5. Make ready leaves Vegetable
6. Take Cow hyde
7. Prepare to taste Salt
8. Make ready cube Maggi
9. Prepare Stock fish

Other additives such as seafoods, leaves, oil etc makes the food a balanced diet. We have in it; mineral, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrate, water, fat and oil. Ekpang nkukwo has the same recipe as ikokori the Yoruba version. Some people call it, "Ekpang" while others call it, "Ekwang Coco".

Steps to make Ekpang nkukwuo:

1. Put oil at the base of the pot, then Peel and grate the cocoyam and water yam together and mix it together, then wrap it in the vegetable leaves in small portions, and place them on the oil in the pot, continue until you wrap up all the mixture. Then add the blended crayfish, pepper, salt, maggi, cow hyde and stock fish. a
2. Cover the pot and allow the oil to melt and then add water from one corner of the pot to avoid loosening the wraps, add water until it covers to the surface then cover the pot allow it to cook for 20mins then stir it and taste, if it looks too thick add a little more water to loosen it up a bit then add shredded vegetable leaves then allow it to cook for 5mins then stir it and allow it to cook for 5mins then put off the gas cooker.

It is a staple of the Bafaw people of the South West region of Cameroon but widely eaten in the rest of the country. Ekpang nkukwo is also used for pregnant women and nursing mothers, as this dish is full of nutrients. For pregnant women, for example, ekpang nkukwo is very goo,d as it fills the breast milk with all the good minerals and vitamins the baby needs. This is how to cook Ekpang Nkukwo. Peel, wash and you can either grate or blend the cocoyam.

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