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Typing:
Cause you can't afford healthy food (Rice)

LadeeE:
Its a different type of rice, the type used for making masa. You can't prepare white rice or jollof rice. So it isn't a 'waste'.

phr0nesis:
Regular local unparboiled rice.
The rice we eat is usually boiled with the husk, dried and dehusked. They dehusk this directly after harvest

baslone:
Food plenty for this world, I love to explore

Amala is still my best meal but all I can say is you are missing out brah!!

Oloki:
The one I know very well here is maize popularly eaten by Cotonou people. But because it scatters anyhow unless you make it extra soft and eat as fast as possible with your spoon, we device a mean of making it last by adding casava flakes (lafu).

Rice and casava flakes is what we call poundo yam.

LocalFARMERS:
Tuwon Shinkafa (Rice swallow) is made from 100% Rice. It is a major swallow in Northern Nigeria. So many eat this as their major swallow at home, on a daily basis. It is also served in special occasions like weddings, naming Ceremony, Birthday parties, special occasions etc.

Tuwo Shinkafa go well with either Egusi soup, bitter leaf, Groundnut Soup, vegetables etc. It doesn't go well with draw Soup (my opinion).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HngF98XQXAc

rummmy:
I can give your family 10 bags of rice .but that shit tuwo is a no no no over here.

FashionCookie:
My swallow no pass Eba, Pounded Yam, Amala, rarely Fufu.
Any other swallow, count me out.

Mariangeles:
I agree.

Rice has no business being swallow meal.

Sheuns:
Miyar kabewa dey make sense too.

TheNiceGuy:
Tuwo gero with kubewa is okay for me

Typing:
Amala and Fufu are roten food. Not healthy for normal people. The process of making Fufu and Amala is not healthy. The most healthy swallow is Tuwo Shinkafa, Tuwo Masara and Pounded yam

Typing:
Amala and Fufu are roten food. Not healthy for normal people. The process of making Fufu and Amala is not healthy. The most healthy swallow is Tuwo Shinkafa, Tuwo Masara and Pounded yam

anidan:
This is waste of rice

Mariangeles:
Yam is different.
It's not that much of a versatile food.
So, the more you can make out of it, the better.

Vikelo1212:
The people that cook this tuwo shinkafa know that there is a different type of (long) rice that is used specifically for this meal.

descarado:
Fermented food introduced probiotics in them. This classified them as among the healthiest food on earth. When you have read about benefits of probiotics, come back.
Besides,amala is not fermented.

That aside, tuwo,which is just rice and pounded yam are major causes of diabetes in Nigeria.
Do your research well.

Ikpongiton:
Tuwo shinkafa is not a swallow because you will still used your teeth to decompose it,before swallowing it.And it doesn't have the same smoothness like semovita.

gentleguy1975:
I used to think tuwo mascara is a mixture of maize and rice until now! Meanwhile here in Nupe land it is served with gbegiri

AngelicBeing:
You have to believe, l will find time to post food at the food section

I can cook both Nigeria and Foreign cuisines, any woman that eats my food will be glued to my food

@ topuc, preparing it is similar to preparing or turning Semovita or Amala while on a low heat, you keep on turning it and it will continue to blend untill it becomes like Semovita or any kind of swallow although you might see few pieces of rice inside but it really makes no difference because it has become Tuwo Shinkafa

I can eat it with any kind of Nigerian soups, l often buy it from Hausa women when l was still in the North, because they are good at preparing it, chai,l miss Northern Nigeria oo before it became infested with terrorists

dkidd:
I believe u... I hope U haven't finished everything U brought back sha, cos I'm coming to take my own

Layi4real:
the same way rice is different to us northerners.

Mariangeles:
I don finish all the pawpaw wey I bring come.

Konquest:
Kool Moe Dee (One of my favorite rap OGs from when I started listening to rap music in the early 1980s), aptly said "Knowledge is King" in his 1989 rap album.

You have typed a very MISLEADING information on "Amala" which is made from 3 different kinds of Elubo (yam flour, unripe plantain flour, and lafun OR fermented cassava flour) here. It's WRONG and highly disrespectful of YOU to come on an online discussion forum to post demeaning comments about other people's ethnic cuisines that have been eaten for centuries. I've eaten Tuwon Shinkafa, Tuwon Masara, Tsire (the standard Hausa word for grilled steak meat and chicken), Asun, Boli and grilled fish combo, and a wide range of properly made Nigerian street foods and foods served in standard restaurants and hotels over my decades of travels and they are largely good. The ONLY foods I won't ever eat are sushi (Japanese uncooked fish dish) and monkey meat including grilled OR pepper soups made from crocodile, snake and dog meat, which is personal to me because I dislike eating meat from carnivorous animals.

Just so you know, the term Amala is a Yoruba word which refers to the final swallow that is made from boiled water mixed with the 3 different types of Elubo [Elubo is the Yoruba word for powdered yam flour, powdered unripe plantain flour, and powdered fermented cassava (lafun) flour].


Read more in the link and watch the 4 short videos BELOW:

1. How to make Lafun - White Amala (Cassava flour fufu)
=>https://kscuisine.com/how-to-make-lafun-white-amala-cassava-flour-fufu/

2. How to make Lafun - White Amala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWL3lNq0Sew?si=XXU9aiBvD5WC-f37
K's Cuisine · 18 Sept 2019

3. The Best Way To Make Elubo Ogede | How To Make Plantain Swallow GREAT for WEIGHT LOSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QgDIb7sx8A?si=5G0S3JSsyiCj6uQT
The Online Cook • Jan 28 2023

4. HOW TO MAKE (YAM) AMALA WITHOUT LUMPS | A VERY SIMPLE TIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT95fYUyOQs?si=rS8y0Xof3bx9RNWG
Remremdfoodie • June 11 2022

5. DO THIS TO MAKE SILKY SMOOTH (YAM) AMALA | HOW TO MAKE AMALA WITHOUT LUMPS FOR BEGINNERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSH1q4n1Kgk?si=Bp4iioF-UHdI80we
Remremdfoodie • Feb 8 2023


Elubo is made from 3 sources of either sun-dried OR better yet industrial oven-dried peeled yams, peeled unripe plantains, and fermented cassava (lafun) which are then milled and turned into packaged FLOUR brands of yam flour, unripe plantain flour, and lafun (cassava flour) which you can find in top department stores and food shops worldwide.

Elubo Isu (Yam flour)
Elubo Ogede (Unripe plantain flour)
Elubo Lafun (Fermented cassava flour).

It's these 3 different types of Elubos (yam flour, unripe plantain flour, and lafun (fermented cassava flour) that the Yoruba folks use to make "Amala" which is the final swallow.

1] Amala made from oven-dried and milled "yam flour" is colored light to dark brown.

2] Amala made from oven-dried and milled unripe plantain flour is colored light brown.

3] Amala made from lafun (fermented cassava flour) is colored white and this is why it is called WHITE Amala.


Cc: @Fashioncookie

EJEGBULEJE:
Make I educate Una small...

Tuwo means " Any Swallow food"
That is why U have:

"Tuwo shinkafa" (swallow made out of rice) "Tuwo Masara" (Swalow made out of maize)
"Tuwo Gero" (Tuwo made out of millet)
"Tuwo Alkama" (Tuwo made out of wheat)
"Tuwo dawa" (Tuwo made out of Guinea corn)

So forget Semo, is Tuwo Masara

Wheat swallow is Tuwo Alkama, na there dem copy am.