{"id":2364,"slug":"okra-plantain-porridge","title":"Okra Plantain Porridge","description":"Okra plantain porridge is a typical Nigerian food prepared from unripe plantain and okra. It is easy to prepare.","ingredients_raw":["1 unripe plantain, peeled and diced","1 cup water","1 dried catfish, cleaned","1 stock cube","2 onions, sliced","200g palm oil","100g okra, grated","20g ugu leaves, rinsed and chopped","¼ tsp salt","1 tablespoon chile-tomato purée (see note)"],"ingredients_norm":["unripe plantain","water","dried catfish","stock cube","onion","palm oil","okra","ugu leaf","salt","chili tomato puree"],"steps":["Combine the plantain and water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 3–5 minutes.","Add the catfish, stock cube, onions, palm oil, okra, and ugu leaves. Stir until a porridge is formed, then cook for an additional 5 minutes.","Season with the salt and chile-tomato. Serve hot."],"categories":["Nigerian recipes","Recipes for porridge","Recipes using plantain","Recipes using okra","Recipes using dryfish","Recipes using catfish","Recipes using fluted pumpkin","Recipes using salt","Recipes using chile","Recipes using palm oil","Recipes using onion"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":15,"servings":"2-3","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Okra_Plantain_Porridge","source_ref":"4517862","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Okra_Plantain_Porridge&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"7cdfcdb7b3410c98b263015dab786f0bf461acecbc756672174f38171bbbd5ac","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:12Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/okra-plantain-porridge"}