Djama djama Activity

Yet another Relief Society activity involving learning the ways of Cameroonian cooking! Wahoo! This week, we learned how to make djama djama (also knows as 'hokieberry') with corn fou fou and chicken (I couldn't tell you what they call the chicken...I will have to ask yet again, because it's a strange word for me).

First, you charcoal cook the chicken...then you cut it up and wash it (weird, I know!).

Then, you take all the 'hokieberry' leaves off the hard stems. (By the way, 'hokieberry' is pronounced sort of like 'Huckle berry'. As a matter of fact, that's what I thought they were talking about for about the first year we were here!)





You wash and cook the leaves.

Then you make the corn fou fou:







Boil the water, pour in the fou fou, and stir the heck out of it! :) Then you pack it into little plastic baggies to eat...

This stuff is definitely yummy! The djama djama leaves, once cooked, taste quite a bit like spinach. I think I may have to try to make this using spinach sometime and see how it turns out! My kids still won't eat it, but Devin and I eat it by the mound!! :) Bon appetite!




VOILA!!




We only have one more of these super fun cooking activities left before I leave. Unfortunately for me, it's an American food one (I'm teaching them all how to make homemade noodles for chicken noodle soup, and my rolls...) I hope I have all these recipes locked away somewhere!! I've come to really enjoy a lot of the African food! Luckily, I've gotten to choose which ones I really like....... :)