Ikokore

Description
Serve with Salad, pitta bread and hummous. This is a wonderful Middle Eastern dish.

Ingredients

 * 1 medium water yam.
 * 2 teaspoons tomato puree
 * 1 medium onion
 * 2 teaspoons fresh pepper(ground)
 * ½ teaspoon locust beans
 * 1 tablespoon meat or chicken stock.
 * 100 ml palm oil
 * 450 gm (16 ounces) smoked dry fish
 * 2 magi cubes
 * Salt (and condiments if desired)

Directions

 * 1) Ground the onion.
 * 2) Peel water yam.
 * 3) Wash the yam, and grate it.
 * 4) Put the grated yam in a deep cooking pot.
 * 5) Add all the ingredients except fish.
 * 6) Add 250ml of water and simmer for 1 hour.
 * 7) Remove the bones in the fish, break it, and wash.
 * 8) Add the fish to the mixture.
 * 9) Mix the grated yam together, and add salt.
 * 10) Take a small scoop and drop it into the soup until it is used up.
 * 11) Reduce the heat, cover the pot and simmer for 30-40 minutes until yam is cooked.
 * 12) Serve hot.