The Western world has a lot of packagings. With the right packaging and a good marketing strategy one can sell ice to a man in Iceland. He would have forgotten that he doesn’t need it.
Did you know that succotash is our own adalu. Adalu is a meal of corn (maize) and beans.
Of course, there are different types of adalu. There’s the plain, almost oil less one, and there is the seven star type. We call the latter elemi meje.
I’m more used to the seven star type. The difference is basically in the ingredients that are used in the preparation.
In the preparation of succotash, one should buy day old corn – ibe eni and beans. Those are the two major ingredients.
The other ingredients separate the men from the boys. Dry fish, prawns, canned tomato, ground pepper, seasoning, stockfish powder, and palm oil are some of the ingredients.
Put the beans on the cooker. Then start removing the grains from the corncobs.
When the beans are half cooked, pour the grains of maize into the pot. When the mixture is already soft, add a measure of palm oil to it.
After some time, you may now add the various ingredients in turn. You may then add a little bit of salt.
Take care, so that you don’t finish the food while tasting.
If you leave some till the second day, you will so enjoy it that you would be blaming yourself for not leaving more. The fact is that the various ingredients would have matured like wine. So the taste would be superb.
I recommend it for eating at anytime of the day.
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