Delicious Mashed Pottage For Dinner 馃.

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Happy Sunday hivers and Family . Am wishing you all a healthy productive and successful November, and as we make sure to eat healthy.

My weekend here is usually tasty sweet snacks but the week was hectic so I needed to rest awhile into the evening, but instead prepared a delicious soft mashed potatoes 馃 and plantains for dinner 馃.

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Have you ever tried making this combination of potatoes and plantains delicious mashed pottage? Its a simple meal with just few ingredients, but one you will love especially if you have little kids because the plantains made it so sweet.

Here I show you the step by step to prepare and enjoy this dinner 馃.

INGREDIENTS:

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1 large sweet potatoes
1 medium plantains
2 tablespoons of red palm oil
1/2 teaspoon of thyme herbs 馃尶
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of salt to taste
1 large hot chili 馃尪
1 tablespoon of margarine 馃
Few dried cent leaves 馃崈

STEPS FOR PREPARATION:

Step 1.

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Preparing this dinner 馃 I will start by cutting the potatoes first in sizes to enable an easy peeling.

Step 2.

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After peeling the potatoes, I will slash cut each part into straight cuts and dice cut them into tiny squares.
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Step 3.

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Next is to wash and soak the potatoes for little starch removal . (Optional)

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Will peel and chop the plantains to keep readily.

Step 5.

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And here the hot chili 馃尪 and dried cent leaves 馃崈 I chopped too.

Step 6.

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The potatoes I will transfer into a pot add fresh water, salt, and set it on the cooker covering it to start cooking 馃.

Step 7.

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Once it starts boiling, I will add the cent leaves 馃崈, chili 馃尪 and stir them in. As above.

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Then will add the black pepper , thyme and margarine. Allow to cook while incorporating.

Step 8.

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Here will add the chopped plantains, stir it inn and cook it on .

Step 9.

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Finally will add the red palm oil into this recipe, stir all the combination thoroughly and cover it to cook more tenderly and soften for that mashed pottage finishing.

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As here above.

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And its all ready for serving. Finger licking pottage from this two base ingredients is so delicious as the plantains gave this dinner a perfect finishing. Its so soft and looks puree with some warm spice. I recommend this meal 馃 to you all especially when you have potatoes and plantains leftovers in the pantry.

Thank you friends for reading and supporting. Hope you enjoyed this recipe.

Images are mine.

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