Cooking soups in Nigeria without thickeners is like allowing your ‘swallow’, to swim alone without any escort into the throat. We use either vegetables, yam, Egusi,ogbono, palm fruit juice or Coco-yam.
Coco-yam is what we will be using to thicken this Ofe owerri soup. The Ibo ladies in the market will advise you easily on what to buy.
In fact these days, you can consult the ladies in the market to select for you the right ingredients to cook any soup of your choice .
This helps when you are not quite sure and you are trying out the recipe for the first time.
Enjoy your journey to Owerri land.
RecipeIngredient
3 pieces smoked Asa fish
4 pieces stock Fish( chunks)season and boil stock fish smoked fish crayfish
1 cup stock Fish pieces
1 cup smoked prawns
8 pieces Pomo
2tablespoons pounded Cocoyam
1 handful Okazi
1 handful Ugu
1tablespoon Crayfish
1 cooking spoon Palm oil
3 beef cubes
2 liters Water
Salt to Taste
Method
1, Wash, season the smoked fish, stock fish and pomo with pepper ,and salt and boil till with 1/2 liter of water,till soft
2, Add remaining water, prawns, ground crayfish ,seasoning cubes and more pepper if needed cocoyam for ofe owerri
3, Add the palm oil and boil for 2-3 minutes
4, Flatten the Coco-yam into four portions and add to the pot, cook until it dissolves completely in the soup
5, Add the Okazi and Ugu and cook for 5 minutes
6, Taste for salt and serve with garri
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