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Kwacoco Bible

Kwacoco bible is steamed cooked ground taro that is mixed with meats, fish, and palm oil and wrapped in plantain leaves.
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Course: lunch, Main Course
Cuisine: Cameroonian
Keyword: crayfish, kwacoco bible, smoked turkey, taro
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Servings: 14
Calories: 339kcal
Author: Margaret

Equipment

  • 1 IMUSA USA Caldero with Glass Lid and Woodlook Handles/Knob, 9-Quart. Black Stone, Wood look.

Ingredients

  • 5 pound cocoyams (taro)
  • 1 pound smoked turkey or smoked/dry fish
  • 2 cups crayfish
  • 1 cup palm oil
  • 1½ tablespoon salt
  • 5 cubes maggi seasoning
  • 2 small yellow chili pepper

Instructions

  • Peel the taro, wash them and grate them using a grater or food processor. If you are using a food processor, then you can chop the taro into smaller pieces, before blending.
  • Put taro paste in a mixing bowl and add in all the ingredients: salt, maggi cubes, crayfish, smoked or fish and/or turkey, pepper (ground pepper), and palm oil. Mix everything well and set aside.
  • Warm the plantain leaves for wrapping by briefly swapping them over your heated stove. This makes the leaves not break when you use them do wrap.
  • Rinse the leaves over a tap of running water and then set them aside. Then bring out a big pot and use some of the leaves to cover the bottom of the pot.
  • Place the leaves on a tray, use a cooking spoon and scoop a spoon and a half of the kwacoco bible mixture and place vertically on the leaf. Then wrap the leaves to enclose the mixture and fold over the two open ends of the leaf to further secure the kwacoco mixture.
  • Place the kwacoco bible in the pot with the folded ends facing down, and continue the process until all the kwacoco bible is all wrapped. Then use some of the leaves and cover the top of the pot, add in about 2 cups of water and set the pot on the stove to cook for about one hour.
  • Check the pot every 10 - 15minutes to add in a little more water (about a cup or two each time) to ensure that the pot is not dry or getting burnt. This is a steam cooking process, the reason water has to be added in small quantities and that too at little intervals.
  • Once cooked, turn off the stove and allow the pot to cool and serve.

Notes

  1. If you do not have plantain leaves, you can use banana leaves or aluminum foil to wrap kwacoco bible. 
  2. Also, put in very little water so the blended paste is not so soft as a very soft paste makes wrapping difficult.

Nutrition

Calories: 339kcal | Carbohydrates: 44.3g | Protein: 4.6g | Fat: 16.6g | Saturated Fat: 7.8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5.9g | Cholesterol: 8.8mg | Sodium: 804mg | Potassium: 999.5mg | Fiber: 6.9g | Sugar: 0.8g | Vitamin A: 14.9IU | Vitamin C: 7.7mg | Calcium: 92.5mg | Iron: 1.7mg