ONUNU: MY NATIVE FOOD

Onunu is a traditional food for the ijaw clan and today am going to be talking about it and how it's been prepared, how it tastes and how you can get it.

Ok the images are quite not as expected cause they were taken by my friend but anyways lets dive in shall we?

Onunu is a native food prepared by an ijaw person in their home it consists of Yam, over ripe plantain and palm oil these 3 items makes the onunu tastes good and its best served hot and with a plate of delicious fish pepper soup though you can use meat but fish is the best for this.

Lets talk process:

The yam and the ripe plantain will be boiled together in same pot, the will be peeled off why the skin of the plantain will intact but the plantain will divided into two and washed very well before boiling.

Boil till the yam is soft and then take the pot down, prepare your muscle oh cause you go pound thats where the second name (Pounded Yam) came from. Now get a mortar and pistle, clean it well and put a little salt inside and some yams from the pot and start pounding it slowly till its pieces and add some plantain to it continue the process while doing that be calculating the number of yam and plantain cause you have to make sure your plantatain surpasses the yam a little to give you a nice taste.

Now add some palm oil to it and pound a little harder, pound it till every inch of it is as smooth as the surface of a glass.

Get your fish and prepare your pepper soup make sure it tastes very delicious 🤤 cause thats another major part of the meal.

This meal is served in almost every ijaw home cause it tastes delicious and very healthy, after eating this you'll sleep wether you like it or not, you must sleep it has a special sleeping pill in it 😂😂😂.

If not for the current situation of nigeria and the price of ingredients in my area I would have done a full video for thr preparation process but if your in Nigeria and you wish to taste this you can get it in port Harcourt, okrika or bayelsa and other ijaw clan or of you have an ijaw friend like me trust me the possibility of eating this is high but after the first taste the person will unfriend you cause you'll demand for more 😂😂😂.

It takes strength to prepare this meal, it takes time and you have to commit to the pounding, you have to believe in the pounding and you have to calculate it too cause one small mistake you'll still getting something nice to eat relax there is no mistake 😂😂😂.

I would have included a video of some parts of the process but ecency doesn't supports video upload on Android i hope they work on it.

I'll still look for a way around it though, smiles 😌.