This is an overdue post I told 
Two weeks ago after I cooked for the first time in a while, I revamped my cooking journey again and I decided to learn to fry yam. I know, lame. But it’s really not cos it was my first time.
Ingredients
- Frying Oil (Frytol)
- Tuber of Yam
- Tomatoes
- Onions
- Egg
- Groundnut paste powder
- Salt
Process
First things first, I cut my tuber of yam into two to make it easier to peel(slice). I’m put my finger there to give you a perspective of how big the yam is. It wasn’t that big as you can see from the picture.
After cutting it into pieces, I peeled it next. This took a while, because this was my first time peeling yam.
After peeling, I sliced each of the halves into 4 quarters, and I sliced each of the quarters into small pieces. All of this was to help me cut the yam into small pieces eventually so that frying it will be easy.
Next, I washed the yam twice. The first wash was obviously dirtier, followed by a rinse which was relatively cleaner.
Then I heated my Frytol until it was hot and I launched my yam in. This was where the frying started.
I fried the yam in two batches. Because this was my first time, the first batch I fried got burnt. Again. I know.
I was more careful with the second batch though so that came out looking good. You can see the difference in the bowl here.
Then onto preparing my egg, I sliced my tomato and onions, added my egg in, and beat to mix the yolk uniformly. The egg came out looking a bit puffy. A later realized that was because I fried it in excess oil: yeah, the same amount of oil I used to fry my oil. Big mistake. Still came out eatable though.
Final thing was preparing the groundnut paste powder. This actually come almost prepared from the market. I just needed to add a little more salt because I wasn’t satisfied with how salty it was.
And voila! I served myself. This is my favorite part of the process.
Last time I posted about my cooking, 
