Hello beautiful people, compliment of the season. It's been a while,hope we are all enjoying the festive season?
Thought to let you in on one of our very local meal completer called Kpomo.
Kpomo is also known as Cow skin,Ponmo or Kanda. It is the favourite of many Nigerians. Almost no assorted dish is complete without Kpomo. We used it in our stew,soups and other local dishes.
There is the dry and fresh type. We had the dry ones here at home,so I thought to put us in the know about it. We get to soak this dry ones for hours, especially over the night,wash properly and then cook it,so it gets even more soft. The dry ones are locally done by open pit fire method.
Although there is a whole lot of debate about kpomo having no nutritional value,there are many who believe it does. And from some researches made,it is said to be a roughage high in fibre - low protein,low fat.
In Nigeria here,it is very affordable. Many homes in this festive period,are already using Kpomo in place of fish,beef,etc.
Other benefits is that gelatin extract from it is used for beauty creams in the cosmetic world.It is also added to drugs as a gelling agent .
Thanks for reading through. Hope you learnt something?