Dishes made with yam
7 dishes from around the world that list yam as a main ingredient.
Jolpan
🇮🇳 IndiaAssamese breakfast snacks of rice, pitha, and sweets, often served with tea or curd
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Bubur cha chaVegan
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreA coconut milk dessert with sweet potato, yam, banana and sago, served hot or cold
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Tsukuneつくね
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese meatballs, often grilled on skewers or simmered in soups
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Amala
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 1 moreYoruba swallow made from yam, cassava, or plantain flour, served with soup
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pounded yamVegan
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 1 moreSmooth, stretchy yam dough eaten with soups in Nigeria
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Laplap
🇻🇺 VanuatuGrated root or breadfruit baked with coconut cream in banana leaves
Main dish
Mannish waterMeat
🇯🇲 JamaicaJamaican goat soup with yam, banana, and dumplings
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Laplap: Lenzo Nimoho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pounded yam: Ayoife Oni, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Amala: Owoeye007, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mannish water: Foodista, CC BY 2.0, source
- Jolpan: Floris van Dyck, Public domain, source
- Bubur cha cha: Alpha, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Tsukune: Syced, CC0, source