Timeline

Garden eggs sauce may well be the best sauce for boiled yam or boiled plantain.

It can also be prepared with vegetable oil.

Recipe

- 8 big garden eggs

- 1 cup of palm oil

- 1 onion

-Maggi

-Salt to taste

-Habanero pepper

2 small smoked fish

PROCEDURE

Before you prepare the garden eggs sauce

-Rinse the garden eggs very well and remove the stalk.

Blend the garden eggs

- You can blend in two ways

1 ) Using A blender:Cut the garden eggs into small pieces

- Put in blender and pour just enough water to help the blade of your blender more

-Blend till smooth.

2 ) Using mortar and pestle,

-Boil some water in a pot

- Add the garden eggs and continue to cook till they are soft

- Peel the waterproof skin of the garden eggs

- Pound in a mortar till a smooth puree is achieved.

- Cut the onions into small pieces

- Pound the pepper in the mortar till smooth

- Prepare the mackerel fish

-Start cooking the yam

- Pour the garden egg puree into a clean pot and cook till almost all the water dries up, set aside

* * * * * Skip the step if you prepared the garden egg puree using mortar and pestle method.

-Pour the palm oil into a clean pot and heat it up, don't bleach. You only need to heat till a piece of onion sizzles when added to the hot oil.

-When the oil is hot enough, add the onions and fry for about 2 mins

- Add the garden egg puree and stir for a bit, cover the pot and cook-fry for sometime stir again.

- Repeat the above step till the small amt of water in the puree is dried up, the palm oil also be separated from the puree

- Add the ogiri okpei (Iru ) and habanero pepper blender and blend.

- Add your seasoning

- Add the mackerel fish, stir, cover and allow to simmer.

-Your Garden Egg Sauce is ready

-Serve with boiled yam or plantain.

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