Hello Hive.
The primary ingredients for making different kind of meals can be processed in different forms.
Some required that the food product be fermented, like yoghurt gotten from fermentation of milk, this gives it better taste and additional nutritional value.
For this kind of African traditional meal mostly eating among the yoruba clan of Nigeria, we see the g recycling of yam that are no longer edible for eating into another form of flower that can be turned in boiled water for food.
Although healthy yams can be used for this purpose as well, we like to eat those and the remnant that can no longer be eating is then processed.
Yams that get rotten and changes in color while still in storage unnoticed is processed into this form of black powder, rather than be thrown in dustbins.
The nutritional value of amala
It is good for the digestive system as it contains lots of fibres and is digested and assimilated very easily.
It can be eating at any point of the day, even at night and immediately before bed, this meal gets digested without any intestinal discomfort.
Amala is rich in vitamin A and controls diabetes and the risk of colon cancer.
The convenience found with eating amala made it a part of my favorite food.
Here how bad the yams got rotten before we reprocessed it.
This was done by peeling the back and removing sand and dust. Next I had it cut into thin slices that can be easily dried in the sun before
Heated water was then poured over it it was then allowed through the night for about 24hours for extra fermentation, grandma knows just the right water temperature to be used else the flour comes out too darkened by severe hot water, this is then dried in the sun for days to suck up the water.
The next phase was for it to be grinded in the meal before the final cooking stage.
Cooking amala is also very easy, it is poured over a moderate heat in boiling water and turned to smoothness, after been allowed to steam for awhile it is turned a second time to mix it properly.
This is then cut in shape and served with a delicious soup of your choice.
Jute Mallow is another favorite leave that is prepared into ewedu for eating amala, hence that's what I have in the pictures above.
We love and enjoyed healthy amala meals and I do hope that a none African person will give this a try