🇧🇿 How to Make Boil Up

Craving Boil Up? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Boil Up at home, in about 1 hr 15 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g pigtail or salt beef, soaked overnight to de-salt
• 4 eggs
• 2 green plantains, 1 cassava, 2 sweet potatoes, 1 cocoyam — all peeled and chunked
• for the dumplings: 1½ cups flour, ½ tsp salt, water
• 2 fillets of fish (optional, added last)
• 1 onion, 2 cloves garlic
• salt, black pepper
• water to cover

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Soak the salted meat overnight and change the water twice, then boil it 30 min. Skip this and the pot is inedible.
2. Add the cassava and cocoyam first — they take longest, about 20 min.
3. Make the dumplings: flour, salt and just enough water for a stiff dough. Roll into fat fingers. They should be dense, not fluffy.
4. Layer in the plantain, sweet potato and dumplings and cook 15 min more. The pot is built in stages so nothing turns to mush.
5. Add the whole eggs in their shells for the last 10 min, and the fish for the last 6.
6. Serve everything in a wide bowl with plenty of the broth. Boil up is a Kriol one-pot and the order of the layers is genuinely the recipe.