Cookbook:Swallow

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Fufu, a type of swallow

Swallows, also called fufu, are a type of preparation made by cooking and kneading/pounding starchy vegetables and grains until smooth and stretchy. They are traditionally consumed in many African and Afro-Caribbean cuisines, where they go by different names.

Components

Swallows can be made from a variety of ingredients. An incomplete list follows:

• Cassava
• Plantain
• Yam
• Maize/corn
• Millet
• Sorghum
• Breadfruit
• Rice

Recipes

Swallow recipes

Cookbook:Amala

Cookbook:Amala Ọgẹdẹ (Nigerian Plantain Fufu)

Cookbook:Cabbage Fufu

Cookbook:Lafun (Nigerian White Amala)

Cookbook:Nigerian Cassava Fufu

Cookbook:Nigerian Wheat Swallow

Cookbook:Potato Fufu

Cookbook:Pounded Yam

Cookbook:Poundo Potato

Cookbook:Poundo Yam

Cookbook:Pupuru (Nigerian Cassava Swallow)

Cookbook:Quaker Oat Swallow

Cookbook:Semo (Nigerian Cooked Semolina)

Cookbook:Spinach Fufu

Cookbook:Tigernut Fufu

Cookbook:Tuwo Shinkafa (Nigerian Mashed Rice)

Cookbook:Tuwon Dawa (Nigerian Sorghum Swallow)

Gallery

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  Using a mortar and pestle to pound fufu in Ghana

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  Congolese swallow made with a mixture of corn and cassava

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  Nigerian swallow made from semolina

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  Cameroonian garri made with cassava

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  Cooking a swallow made of corn

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  Akpu (fermented cassava swallow) served with edikaikong

External links

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/dining/fufu-recipe-swallows.html
• https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021958-fufu-swallows
• https://dobbyssignature.com/types-of-nigerian-swallow-for-soup/