Eru is a soup from
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; th ...
. It is a specialty of the
Bayangi people, of the
Manyu region in southwestern Cameroon. It is vegetable soup made up of finely shredded leaves of the
eru or okok. The eru is stewed with
waterleaf In botany, waterleaf can mean:
* Any plant of the genus ''Hydrophyllum''
* Any plant which is a member of the waterleaf family, Hydrophylloideae
* ''Talinum fruticosum'', a leaf vegetable of the family Talinaceae
In architecture, waterleaf means: ...
or spinach,
palm oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 33% of global oils produced fr ...
, crayfish, and either smoked fish, cow skin (kanda) or beef.
This dish is traditionally eaten with fermented
water-fufu or
garri
In West Africa, ''garri (also known as gari, galli'', or ''gali)'' is the flour of the fresh starchy cassava root.
In the Hausa language, ''garri'' can also refer to the flour of guinea corn, maize, rice, yam, plantain and millet. Fo ...
.
Eru Recipe
File:Vendeuse d'Okok en train de découper les feuilles d'okok Eru.jpg, A woman slicing Eru leaves
File:Cooking master chef.jpg, Cooking process
File:Exposition vente des femmes.jpg
File:DExposition vente des femmes18.jpg, Eru leaves for sale
File:Exposition vente des femmes29.jpg, Crayfish used for cooking Eru soup
File:Bayam sellam selling cow skin.jpg, White fermented cassava flour locally called "water Fufu"
File:Food market 5.jpg, Cassava flour is eaten with Eru soup
File:Cow Skin.jpg, Cow skin locally called "canda"
File:Water fufu and eru 03.jpg, Lunch is ready! water fufu and Eru soup
File:Water fufu and eru 02.jpg, Cow skin in Eru soup
File:Preparation mitoumba3.jpg, Cassava Tubers
See also
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Cuisine of Cameroon
Cameroonian cuisine (French: cuisine camerounaise) is one of the most varied in Africa due to Cameroon's location on the crossroads between the north, west, and center of the continent; the diversity in ethnicity with mixture ranging from Ban ...
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List of African dishes
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List of vegetable soups
This is a list of vegetable soups. Vegetable soup is a common soup prepared using vegetables and leaf vegetables as primary ingredients.
Vegetable soups
* Atama soup – a vegetable and palm nut soup that originates in South Nigeria.
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References
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Cameroonian cuisine
Vegetable soups
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