Turkey berries are very nutritious to consume and are used in many homes they are used as supplementary vegetables to prepare stews and soups. Dedicated turkey berries recipes are not common even though most households use them.
We dedicate this post to bring you turkey berries recipes, delicious, healthy, easy-to-prepare and easy on your pocket. We shall be updating with many more recipes of turkey berries.
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Today, we come up with, Aguturk Yum. Don’t be scared by the name, we just coined it from its ingredients.
Aguturk Yum Ingredients
- 2 Medium size whiting fish (cassava fish)
- 1 Medium size salted fish/tilapia (koobi)
- 6 – 8 chopped tomatoes
- 4 onions chopped or blended
- Pepper to spice
- Melon seeds (agushi) powder
- Turkey berries
- Palm oil or vegetable cooking oil
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Cooking procedure in Aguturk Yum
Before you start, clean your hands, all the tools, pans and bowls to use. Also, clean all ingredients thoroughly.
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Step 1
Cook whiting fish with salted fish together with little water. Turn twice and if salted fish is cooked Set aside to cool and debone, the fillet will be used for the stew
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Step 2
Put cooking oil on the fire.
Mix your agushi powder with water into paste and add a little salt.
Then, put in your agushi paste. Cook the agushi paste to form chunks like eggs. The salt added to the past helps the agushi to curdle.
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Step 3
When the agushi is cooked, remove from oil and add your onions. Add pepper, chopped tomatoes and blended turkey berries. Add them one after the other when they cook for about 5minutes.
Allow to boil for about 10minutes then add your filleted fish and agushi. Lower the heat and allow simmering till there is less water.
Your stew is ready.
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Food combinations with Aguturk yum.
You can eat Aguturk yum with rice, yam, cocoyam, plantain, potatoes etc.
Please try this meal at home and share with us how it goes. We would also love to see what you are doing with turkey berries. We would be glad to add your turkey berries recipes to the list. Share.

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