How to Make Kuchaa

Aisha and Kintah taught me how to make KUCHAA. I am so excited.

So this is what you do.
- First you need a bag full of kuchaa leaves (the flowers of these plants are used to make that pink juice, wonjo, that they freeze and sell in teh markets here) and pick out the leaves and wash them really well.
- Then get a handful of netetuwoo (which I have no idea what you would call in English, but it's in this long bean thing that people collect in the bush in teh rainy season and the yellow fluff around it looks like popcorn but its really sweet and monkeys love it) and rinse it out

- Pound the netetuwoo until it's nice and smooshed
- Put a pot of water to boil with 3 or 4 occra in it (you have to boil it until the occra is cooked)
- Wash 6 or 7 hot red peppers and add it to the turoo mix - i.e. pound it together with the netetuwoo mush
- Once the occra is ready, take it out of the water and stick it in to the turoo mix and pound it all together until it's a lovely slimy sticky delicious consistency
- then you have to remove all that stuff from the pounder because it's really slippery
- Oh, and when you take out the occra, you have to put in the kuchaa leaves. The water by this point should be boiling at least for a while.
- When teh leaves start to get dark green adn floppy and kuchaa-shade looking, take it out and stick it in the turoo and pound it until it's smooth
- Then add in the netetuwoo mix and pound it all together
- Add about 2 jumbo cubes, and add some salt as ncessary
- Some people also put a little bit of palm oil in afterwards.
It is delicious. I'm so excited. The only problem I need to solve now is where to get ingredients when I go back across the pond...