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Vegan Pumpkin Yam Pottage Recipe

So today, I will be sharing a delicious pumpkin recipe that anyone, irrespective of your country of origin will enjoy. And it’s VEGAN too.

Vegan Pumpkin Recipe Ingredients

The following ingredients can be purchased in African food stores in major cities of the world.

 Check the notes on ingredients below for alternative ingredients.

1kg (2.2 lbs) Whole Pumpkin

800g (1.8 lbs) White yam

1 red onion

Habanero pepper (to taste)

1 cup shredded Oil Bean seeds (ụkpaka or ụgba)

¼ cup Red palm oil

300g (10 oz) Spinach

Salt (to taste)

Notes on the Vegan Pumpkin Ingredients

For delicious results, I recommend that you prepare the pumpkin in combination with a sweet staple because pumpkin on its own has a bland taste (unlike anyụ) and not a lot of people will enjoy it. Unless you are going for a low-carb meal, prepare the pumpkin in combination with either white yam (which I used), sweet potatoes or ripe but firm plantains.

I recommend red onion because it goes really well with red palm oil.

A great alternative to shredded oil bean (ụkpaka) is sauteed mushrooms. 

For leafy vegetable, I used spinach. If you are in Nigeria, you can use ugu, green amaranth (green), fluted pumpkin leaves or garden egg leaves.

Before you prepare this delicious VEGAN Pumpkin recipe

Peel the yam and pumpkin and cut into small cubes. The size of cubes for both staples should be equal.

Rinse the leafy vegetable and slice into small pieces. I also usually remove the excess water from spinach because it has a high water content which ruins recipes. 

Cut up the habanero pepper and onions.

Directions for making the delicious VEGAN Pumpkin recipe

Boil some water in a pot.

Add the yam and pumpkin cubes making sure the water is at the same level as the contents of the pot. Start cooking.

For 1 inch cubes, it takes about 25 minutes to cook to my liking but keep checking it till a knife can effortlessly drive into the yam and pumpkin cubes.

At about the 20th minute, add the shredded oil bean and some salt and continue cooking.

In another clean dry pot, add the palm oil and once hot, add the onions.

Sautée the onions for a bit and add the pepper. Sautée for a bit.

Add the sliced leafy vegetables and sautée for about 1 minute.

Add this to the pot of yam and pumpkin making sure there’s little to no water in the pot before you do so. 

Stir very well and add salt if necessary.

Serve with a chilled drink. You can see how I served it with a pumpkin “bowl”. If you want to do that then you need to buy two pumpkins. 

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