Recipes‎ > ‎

Kwacoco Bible

posted Feb 19, 2010, 5:10 AM by Joshua Chiamba   [ updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM ]


Serves:

  • 7 people

ingredients:

  • 1kg of macabo cocoyams
  • 3 banaleafs (warmed in the sun or fire) (for wrapping)
  • 200 grams of crayfish (around 1 cup)
  • 500 grams of dried (boneless) fish (depending on taste)
  • 1 tablespoon of mixed green spices (leaks, parsley, celery, cumanju)
  • 1 teaspoon of ginger
  • 1 big onion
  • 5 cubes of maggi vegetable stock
  • 10 tablespoons of red palm oil
  • 1 tablespoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of ground garlic
  • 4 slices of soft coco leafs
  • 0.25L of water (for mixing)

preparation:

  1. Clean the cocoyams with cold water and grate them.

  2. Put all ingredients (except the banana leafs) in a medium sized pot and mix them together with a spoon.

  3. Put the banana leafs flat on a plate and put a small quantity of the mixed coco inside it. Now wrap the leaves around the coco mixture in the shape of a bible.

  4. Make 1 banana leaf wrap per person, so 7 in total. When done put all the coco wraps inside a flat pot.

  5. Put the pot on the fire and add a cup of water.

  6. Cover the pot for 10 minutes, after that add 1 liter of water.

  7. When the water has evaporated the kwacoco will be done and can be removed from the pot.

Additional Information:

  • Vegetarian: no
  • Spicy: yes
  • Note: you can keep the kwacoco for a maximum of 3 days.
  • Name: Yeban Gladys

Comments