Many people take garden egg raw but not many people actually know it can be prepared as sauce, you need to stop wondering and let's dive into the full explanation of how to prepare.
While some take the garden egg like that, some actually make sauce out of it, and don't forget that the garden egg comes out or much available around August through October. The beautiful thing is that you can make your sauce with any type of the garden eggs like the purple garden egg called the "aubergine", the white and green garden eggs, and they belong to the vegetable family.
The green garden egg, it's mostly found in Africa.
The white garden egg, can be found in Africa and Asia.
The yellow garden egg, can be found also in Africa and anywhere.
According to the health expert on foods, raw garden eggs is very good source of dietery fibre, copper, thiamine, potassium and manganese, and it's also a good source of vitamin B6, magnesiums and niacin. Not forgetting the garden egg is very effecting in terms of weight loss, it lowers blood cholesterol, and takes care of glaucoma.
The garden egg also contains nutrients like beta carotene, vitamin B6 E, foliate, calcium, iron and magnesium, and many more nutrients. This is why it's recommended to make the sauce without removing the skin. Now let's dive into the preparation.
Ingredients;
Get your garden eggs (either of the ones mentioned above), your palm oil, your medium size smoked fish, your ground pepper, locust bean, your onion, crayfish, and salt to taste.
How to Prepare;
First Step; make sure you rinse and remove the green stalk, then in a medium size pot, boil the garden eggs for about 10 minutes to make it tender and marshable.
When it's done, chop the boiled garden eggs into smaller pieces with a small mortal and pestle or a small paddle used for turning, make your you blend it with a little water. You can blend it smooth or rough depends on your taste or likeness. After pounding, the set aside.
Second step; Get your pot, and heat up the palm oil till it losens up a little, then add the chopped onion and locus beans, stir until it's fried for about 5 minutes.
Third Step; After heating the oil and pouring your onion and locust beans, then pour the pounded garden eggs, your smoked fish, seasoning cubes, crayfish, pepper and salt into the same pot. Then mix everything together and leave it to cook for about 15 minutes, and when it's cooked, turn off the heat.
Now you are done and it's ready to be served. You can serve with yam and boiled or roasted Plantain.
Enjoy!
I wish I really could eat garden egg