Naija Cooking Class (Online): Efo | Yam Pottage w. Ozoz/Kitchen Butterfly
Join renowned Nigerian food explorer, culinary anthropologist and food historian Ozoz Sokoh aka @kitchenbutterfly on a tour of her pantry, and a cook-along session of tasty meals Potato (or Yam) Pottage and Efo.
Thursday April 9 2020
3:00PM-5:00PM PT | 6:00PM ET | 11:00 PM GMT (West Africa)
Facebook Live & IG Live [Afro Urban Society]
Gather ingredients from the list below, and tune in on Thursday 3:30PM US Pacific Time. Ozoz will go live showing us how she gets down preparing traditional dishes from Nigeria with food staples. Recipes can be/have been adapted to fit various dietary needs and preferences.
Updated/Revised Ingredients List
***YAM/POTATO POTTAGE***
½ cup palm oil
1 onion
1 - 2 chilli peppers - Scotch bonnet or habanero
Salt
3 - 4 large potatoes (or white-fleshed sweet potatoes or Puna yams from Nigerian/Ghana), peeled and cut into large chunks
Optional
Seasoning
1 - 2 tablespoons ground crayfish
½ teaspoon ground turmeric (to boost the immune system)
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper (to boost the immune system)
***EFO***
¼ cup palm oil
Handful fresh tomatoes, sliced or roughly chopped
1 onion, sliced
½ red bell pepper, sliced
1 chilli pepper, chopped - scotch bonnet/habanero etc
1 - 2 cups wilted leafy greens (Amaranth, spinach, kale, chard, callaloo, sweet potato greens), chopped
Optional
Seasoning
1 - 2 tablespoons ground crayfish
½ teaspoon ground turmeric (to boost the immune system)
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper (to boost the immune system)
Others
Mushrooms
Dried Fish
Assorted Meats
ABOUT
Ozoz Sokoh is a food explorer and ‘Traveller by plate’, passionate about food in its entirety – cooking, eating, dreaming, writing and photographing it especially on her blog, Kitchen Butterfly and using foodways – the social, cultural and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food to explore the world because ‘Food is more than eating’. Check out her blog to follow her work www.kitchenbutterfly.com
**This event is presented as part of Afro Quarantine Fest.**
Afro Quarantine Fest: A Virtual Pan-African Multidisciplinary Festival celebrating and highlighting artists of African descent from all over the world who have been affected by the need for social distancing due to the spread of #covid19 aka #coronavirus.
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