Recipe: Appetizing Processing of akpu/fufu

Processing of akpu/fufu. Cassava, cutlass, morta and pestle, pot. Harvest your raw cassava from your farm or buy get from you local markets. Wash properly to be sparkling white.

Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou) is a popular West African food. In Twi, fufu means "mash or mix" for a soft and doughy staple food of the Akan ethnic groups in Ghana and other West African countries. Fufu is traditionally processed on a household-scale and has not been industrialised. You can have Processing of akpu/fufu using 4 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Processing of akpu/fufu

1. Prepare of Cassava.
2. It's of Cutlass.
3. You need of Morta and pestle.
4. It's of Pot.

A number of problems and constraints are associated with current Nutritional properties of fufu analog produced from co-processing of cassava and cocoyam were studied. The production of elubo and fufu is basically the same to a stage in the processing of cassava. These two food items are common staple food in Nigeria. Lafun originate from Egba land in Ogun State, The origin of fufu is Ibo Land where it is popularly called Akpu.

Processing of akpu/fufu instructions

1. Harvest your raw cassava from your farm or buy get from you local markets.
2. Peel it.
3. Wash properly to be sparkling white.
4. Soak with water and leave for about 3 to 4days to ferment.
5. Then filter it with your sieve to get the cassava paste.when done, allow to settle for sometime.
6. Then pour out the water in it. You will get your paste 👇 👇.
7. Pour in a bag and tie the bag properly to avoid spilling. Then place something heavy on it that can make it drain water fast..
8. Before pounding, mix your cassava with little water like you do your flour.
9. Mould very big and put in a pot on fire and allow to simmer for about 30s or a minute.
10. Remove from the pot and pound very well.. Should in case you notice any lumps in it, add little salt to the pot on fire. It will dissolve the lumps when it's finally done.
11. Now mould it again. But this time it should be very small and make a hole in the mould and put in the pot on fire and allow to cook for about 10 to 15mins.
12. Bring out and pound.
13. Pound till it's very smooth..
14. Your akpu is ready. Enjoy with any soup of your choice. Have any questions where you're confused? Please do in the comment section. Thank you.

By making Cassava fufu from scratch, I mean making akpu from when the cassava tubers are harvested to the processing of fermented cassava into akpu and then cooking the fermented akpu and serving your cassava fufu with soup. Cassava Fufu is regarded as the most traditional Nigerian fufu meals. Cassava Fufu is regarded as the most traditional Nigerian fufu meal. There are powder versions of other Nigerian fufu meals which makes it easy for modern day ajebutters to prepare them but not this one. Akpu is a thick, staple Nigerian food extracted from cassava tubers.