Achicha and fio-fio(dried cocoyam and pigeon peas)
Achicha and fio-fio(dried cocoyam and pigeon peas)

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, achicha and fio-fio(dried cocoyam and pigeon peas). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have achicha and fio-fio(dried cocoyam and pigeon peas) using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Achicha and fio-fio(dried cocoyam and pigeon peas):
  1. Get 3 cups fio-fio(pigeon peas)
  2. Take 3 cups achicha(cocoyam)smashed
  3. Prepare 5 milk cups of red oil
  4. Get 3 handfull of scent leaf
  5. Get 5 big balls of onions
  6. Prepare 2 cubes knorr cube
  7. Get 15 pieces fresh pepper
  8. Make ready 4 handfull of ukpaka
  9. Take to taste salt
  10. Prepare fish(optional)
  11. Take nylon(for achicha)

Drain the soaking liquid and place pigeon peas in a pot. Select the pigeon peas like you would do beans, to remove chaff and insects. Pour the washed fio fio into a pot and cover with water. Our fio fio( pigeon pea) is dirt and stone free.

Instructions to make Achicha and fio-fio(dried cocoyam and pigeon peas):
  1. Select and wash your pigeon peas
  2. Put it in a pot and make sure water covers it
  3. Cook for 30 mins, wash and return it into the pot and start cooking it.
  4. In a bowl of water pour the already crushed cocoyam,allow it to soak for 10mins
  5. Wash it properly until there is no trace of sand under it,drain it out from water.tie them beat by beat with nylon and put inside the already cooking pot where the pigon peas are
  6. Allow it to cook for 30mins remove it from fire and let the pigeon peas to cook until is soft,that means is done.
  7. Drain the water in it,untie the cocoyam mix it with the pigeon peas
  8. In a separate pot or frying pan add red oil allow it to get hot 3 mins is ok
  9. Add onions,pepper,ukpaka,maggi,scent leaf,salt to taste,allow it to cook for 10 mins
  10. Mix the already prepared sauce together with the pigeon peas and cocoyam together.your food is good to go.you can serve it with fried fish if you wish.

Unlike other fio fio it does not take much time to done. It is a good source of protein, dietary fiber. It is traditionally eaten in the dry season when fresh vegetables are hard to come by. Achicha, dry cocoyam is pre-cooked, sun dried cocoyam. Achicha is one of the local food prepared by Enugu people, Achicha which is made of dry cocoyam can be prepared with fresh akidi, or fio fio, achicha can also be prepared alone with just scent leaf.

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