Yam and Spicy Egg Sauce
PublicA Nigerian dish of boiled or fried yam served with a sauce of tomatoes, chiles and onions cooked with whisked eggs, eaten at breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Adapted from Cookbook:Yam and Spicy Egg Sauce (Wikibooks) by Wikibooks contributors
Photo: "Boiled yam with fried egg.jpg" by Bukky658, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ingredients
Serves 1
Main ingredients
yam, peeled
Egg sauce
oil
fresh tomatoes, diced
fresh ata rodo chiles, diced
onions, diced
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salt, to taste
seasoning of your choice
eggs, as many as you want
Method
Yam
- Cut the yam to your desired shape. Please note the shape for boiled and fried are different. Fried has a more light cutting compared to boiling.
- Either boil the yam in salted water until tender OR salt the yam and fry in groundnut oil until golden brown.
Egg sauce
- Heat a little oil in a saucepan.
- Add the diced tomatoes, chile, and onions. Fry for about 5 minutes until softened.
- Add salt and seasoning to taste.
- Crack eggs in a clean bowl, and whisk until smooth.
- Pour the eggs into the pan with the sauce. Cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes or until the egg is cooked.
- Serve the sauce with the yams.
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