Ofe Akwu Stew

The people from the South Eastern part of Nigeria has so many soups and stews that it is almost impossible to know them all. Soups are taken seriously by Nigerians and diversity has made available multiple soups to try out. They come up with different and innovative ideas that you will just love to give a try. The Ofe Akwu is an Igbo native soup sent in by our amazing subscriber Jenny, who gives us the step by step procedure to making the Ofe Akwu Soup.

Ofe akwu stew (Igbo native stew)

Ingredients


Palm kernel
Ogiri
Dried fish
Stock fish
Beef (goat meat can do too)
Scent leave
Pepper, cubes and crayfish

Directions:

Parboil meat with seasoning to taste and set aside.

Boil palm kernel for min of 20mins to soften the flesh, pound and squeeze out the sauce with little water to get thick sauce.

Cook sauce in uncovered pot for 10mins, add both dry and stock fish. Add ogiri, allow to cook (now cover pot) for a while

Add crayfish, cubes, pepper (yellow type is better) and boil for 5mins, add scent leave and bring down after 3mins.

Best enjoyed with local rice.

Food Recipe Submitted By JennyWithGod

Vegetable Rice and Fruit Drink ( pineapple, pear and ginger)

 

 

Vegetable rice 

 

 

Ingredients 

 

Rice

Vegetable oil

Titus fish

Pepper

Tomatoes

Rodo( Habanero Pepper

Onions

Salt

Stock cube

Curry and

Vegetable (Tete).

 

Directions

• Fry your blended pepper a little adding salt, stock cube, curry.
• Add your washed rice and water.

• When rice is almost dry add the washed and cut vegetable on the rice and your deboned Titus fish and sliced onions. Do not stir to prevent it from burning. 

• After 5 mins put off the light and stir well to incorporate the fish and vegetable into the rice . 

          And your vegetable rice is ready. 

Fruit drink 

 

Ingredients

 

Pineapple

Pear

Ginger.

 

• Peel your pineapple and dice into small parts.

• Pour altogether into your fruit blender .

• No need to add water as the water from the pineapple is sufficient. But you may add if you feel it's too thick.

And your fruit drink is ready. 

 

Enjoy your meal.

 

Recipe submitted by Olaide

Buttered Curried Rice with Turkey Stew and Shrimps and Vegetable Salad

 Rice is that meal almost everyone go for, it is easy to cook .This recipe is a little different from the every day normal rice, we have the common rice recipe like the jollof rice, the fried rice, the Chinese fried rice and also the white rice. but this recipe(Buttered Curried Rice) is different as you will be making use of butter, just as the name implies. Buttered curried rice was shared by one of our subscribers Shirley. see how she made it below

Ingredients

Pepper
Tomatoes
Onion
Turkey
Curry
Butter
Rice
Shrimps
Chicken
Cabbage
Cucumber
Carrots
Sweet corn
Red beans
Cream
Salt to taste

Directions


Turkey Stew:
 

Season and steam your turkey

Blend your pepper, tomatoes and onion

Pour your vegetable oil in a pot, when is a bit hot you add your sliced onion when it's a bit brown you add the blended pepper, tomatoes and onion, and season

Add your steamed turkey then allow it to simmer then it's ready. 

Curry buttered Rice:
 

Wash and per boil your rice, then wash the second time

Pour water in the pot, place on fire.

Add curry , butter and‎ salt to taste, when it boils you add your washed per boil rice and allow to cook till its done.
 

Shrimps and chick‎en mixed vegetable salad:
 

Wash and slice your cabbage, cucumber, carrots

Wash season and steam your shrimps and chicken allow it to cool then mixed them with the slice vegetables, add your sweet corn, red beans and whatever you like in your salad, add cream and it's ready.

Food Recipe Submitted by Shirley

Pounded yam , Efo riro and Turkey

 

Pounded yam is that one Nigerian cuisine, that most  Nigerians love to eat, it is tasty with an amazing texture that makes your mouth watery every time you come across it or eat it. Pounded yam accompanied with a nice Nigerian native soup like efo riro is just out of this world. Every one that has ever tasted this dish will always come back for more.

The pounded yam, though may be difficult to cook, it is still one of the most demanded food in Nigeria, no wonder business moguls now produce pounded yam flour to make the meal easier to cook.

Deyinka, who has sent us various recipes, sent us how she made her pounded yam the easiest way, she also sent us a Nigerian native soup (Efo Riro).

 

Ingredients
 

 

Yam,

water,

any green veggie of choice,

tomatoes,

pepper,

onions,

palm oil,

locust beans,

Stock cube,

dried and smoked fish,

turkey

 

Directions

 

Peel yams, cut into cubes and boil till soft.

Place in a food processor or stand mixer till it forms a dough. Scoop

Wash all ingredients, boil turkey with onions, smoked ponmo and add the fish after 5mins.

Boil the turkey in its juices first before adding water.

Blend pepper and boil till water evaporates.

Add oil in a pot, followed by onions and crayfish, add pepper followed by salt, stock cube and locust beans.

Add vegetables last and reduce heat. Turn off heat and serve with pounded yam.

 

Recipe Submitted By Deyinka

 

Healthy Veggie Yam Dish

Diversity amplifies the power we as humans carry, with our diverse culture comes diverse way of life and diverse techniques of doing things.

One way in which diversity can be felt around the world is in the area of food.

Just when you think you have tried out every recipes you can think of, new ones start to emerge and you will be left amazed by the new recipes you come across. Sometimes one wonder, how do people come up with such ideas for a great recipe? The answer to that question, is diversity.

 

Yam recipes are diverse, we have the yamarita, fried yam, ojojo and so many more. Yam recipes just seem to have new innovation's as we go.

Pretty Eyez sent us a Healthy Veggie Yam recipe and we are so loving it. Apart from the meal being healthy and tasty, it also looks really good on the eyes and it is something everyone should think of trying out and adding to their food menu.

Ingredients


Yam
Palm Oil (which has some cool health benefits)
onions (chopped)
Pepper
Cray fish
Ukpaka/ Ugba ( oil bean seed)
Basil Leaves/ nchanwu
Spice
Salt
ugu or any other nutritious veggie

Directions

Peel,cut,wash and boil the yam (avoid water yam). Add a little salt.

Once the yam Is tender drain and set aside.

Place a dried pot on the fire,add palm oil, heat for a min,add chopped onions,blended fresh pepper and crayfish, ukpaka/ ugba (oil bean seed)and basil leaves/ nchanwu. Add spice cubes and little salt.

Cook for two mins, pour the sauce into the pot containing the yam, add already washed and chopped ugu or any other nutritious veggie.

Using a flat wooden spoon mix all together sprinkle a little water, cook for another 2min and...baam food is ready! 

Food Recipe Submited by Pretty Eyez

Okro in Sea Food with Swallow

Soups is one meal every Nigerian can not do without. Their are various varieties of soup that it is almost impossible to know how to make them all.

Nigeria soups are very good for the body as it involved using mostly green leafy vegetable, which are obviously basking with numerous health benefits needed by the human body everyday.

One of this soup is the one made with okra, okro soup which can be cooked in various ways. Apart from this soup having various health benefits gotten from green leafy vegetables, it is also tasty and can be made with a little amount of money. So look at it, tasty, healthy and cheap to make. JennyWihGod sent us how she made her okro soup in sea food and we have just one word for it 'B.E.A.UTIFUL'.

Ingredients;


Okro
Vegetable (Uziza leave ie hot pepper leave)
Shrimps
Prawns
Boneless Croca fish
Ginger
Ehuru
Red oil
Seasonings

 Directions

 Dice okro and onion, grind pepper, grind ginger and ehuru and serve out the water, cut uziza leave. Boil shrimp and prawns (fish in a diff pot)for about 5mins with seasonings to taste and set all aside.

In a warm pot, add little red oil, allow to cook for a min, add onion, ginger and ehuru water, add fish, prawns and shrimp-boil for 2 mins, add seasoning to taste, add okro and boil then uziza leave and then boil for 2 more minutes.

Your soup is ready.

N/B use as little water as you can to enable the soup come out thick

Can be enjoyed with any swallow of your choice.

Food Recipe Submitted by JennyWithGod



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POUNDO YAM AND EGUSI SOUP

 

Ingredient
 

Melon seeds,
Cray fish,
chicken,
chicken stock,
palmoil,
stock fish,
 ugu leaf,
 Dry Fish,
Afang Leaf‎,
wooden spoon,
locust beans,
Salt
ginger and garlic spice,
cinamon,‎
onions,
dry pepper,
groundnut oil.

Method for seasoning chicken
 

• cut chicken to desirable size and clean
• To the chicken, add ginger and garlic spice, dry pepper, cinamon(a pinch),stock cube and salt,make sure to rub the spices into the chicken and add 1/2 teaspoon of olive or groundnut oil and diced onions. Leave the mixture to stand for atleast 3-4hrs or overnight in a fridge.

Method for Egusi soup

Blend egusi with crayfish and onions

Into the egusi mixture, add little chicken stock and make to desirable thickness

Heat palmoil and add locust beans to fry a bit,add the egusi lumps to fry

Add pepper, chicken stock and seasoning ‎,stock fish and stir with wooden spoon 

‎
Add the chicken, dry fish and‎ ugu leaf cook for 3mins

Lastly add the afang leaf

Food Recipe Submitted by Akande Oreoluwa



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PEPPER SOUP OKRA served with wheat.

The thing I love most about this soup is the fact that it is highly nutritious and good for those dieting and u don't use palm oil to cook it

Ingredients:

Meat(chicken,fish or intestine)
Dry fish,
Crayfish,
Diced pomo
Pepper soup spices,
Grated okra,
Ugu(pumpkin leaves),
Dry pepper and
Seasoning.

Direction:

• Wash and put in pot

• Chop little onion in, add salt,stock cubes allow to simmer for a few mins, then add water and allow to boil until meat is almost tender.

• Add your dry fish, crayfish,dry pepper, pepper soup spice to the stock allow to boil until spices have sipped into meats etc then add grated okra stir it in for a min

• Add ugu leaves stir in for a min depends on how tender the leaves are but ensure u don't overcook the vegetables. you can taste for salt if needed.

• Set down and serve with semo,wheat or eba.

Food Recipe/ Picture Submitted By Damilola


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Danwake ( Hausa Traditional dumpling)

Food is a special aspect in the human race, not only because it serves our physiological need but also other aspects like it being a beautiful art, being open for innovation and defining cultures. But one of the greatest thing about food is the ability to bring cultures, tribes, ethnicity and even nations together.

Some times you wonder how we are able to come up with food concepts, knowing which ingredient to add together in order to come up with a masterpiece. Danwake is an example of one of those masterpiece. Danwake (Hausa Traditional Dumpling) is a food specifically made in the Northern part of Nigeria and looking at the ingredient mixture and directions of cooking, this food is indeed innovative and something what trying at home.
This dish was prepared by our Nigerian Food  BBM Channel subscriber/ blog visitor Bilkisu and here is how she made her Danwake (Hausa Traditional Dumpling):

Ingredients:

 

• 2 cups danwake flour ( danwake flour is a mixture of ground beans 

• wheat flour 

• 1 cassava flour in equal quantities and  

• 2 tablespoons of baobab powder- kuka in hausa) 

• 1 teaspoon potash, ground 

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil  

• 1/2 onion, chopped 

• 1 teaspoon ground red pepper
  
  

                   Directions

• Fry the onions in the vegetable oil till golden brown. Put oil aside to cool.

 

• Dissolve the potash in 1 & 1/2 cup water then add to the flour and mix till it forms a somewhat thick but soft dough. 

• Drop in boiling water using a spoon, cook for 15mins. 

• Strain and rinse in lukewarm water.

• Serve immediately with the onion flavored vegetable oil,sprinkle of pepper, boiled eggs and cooked veggies

Serves 2

Now you can try out something new at home. Trying new food will spice up your home life as you and your family will not be subjected to the same food menu over and over again. Now your family can look forward to their breakfast, lunch or dinner because of the suspense you bring into the kitchen.
Also, as you make these at home, take some time to appreciate it source (the northern part of Nigeria), knowing that good things comes from every culture, things you can now enjoy the benefit of.
Another food from the Northern part of Nigeria that you will love is the Waina (Hausa Rice Cakes)
 

Fish Peppersoup

Pepper soup is a cool delicacy that almost all Nigerians have had a taste of. The soup is a special delicacy served in parties, homes, but mostly bars.

It solely give you the feel of the name it is called, ''Pepper Soups''.

 That is, that soup that is pepperish, which leaves you wanting something cold to quench that pepperish feeling. There are various types of pepper soup but what we have for you today, made by our amazing subscriber Bilikisu is the pepper soup made with catfish. This is so tasty it'll make you wanting for more. NFC also loves colour, which makes food beautiful, and as you can see, Bilikisu has made for us a colourful pepper soup which can add colour to your bar or events.

Here is how Bilikisu made her own pepper soup

Ingredients:


1kg catfish, cleaned, washed and cut
1 lemon
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1tablespoon tomato-pepper paste
3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1 fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
1 & 1/2 cup water
2 red chili peppers
1 leek, diced
2 bay leaves
3 seasoning cubes
Parsley, chopped
Salt

Directions

• Marinate fish with lemon, pinch of salt and 1 seasoning cube for 15mins.

• In a non-stick pot, fry the tomato-pepper paste, garlic and fresh ginger in oil for 2mins. Add the water and bay leaves, bring to boil.

• Add the remaining seasoning cubes, leek, red chili peppers and then the fish.

•  Lower the heat and allow to simmer for 5mins.

•  Dish out and garnish with chopped parsley.

Serves 4

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Miyan Gyada... (Groundnut soup) with fufu

One thing we appreciate about the Nigerian community is that, when you think you know all the soup in the country, you start to see new type of soups and you are just amazed by the innovation put into making this soups. That is one thing that makes the Nigerian nation a great one, our different ethnicity and groups has afforded us varieties in lifestyle, ideas and even food. One of this varieties sent by our subscriber (Deyinka) is the Miyan Gyada, also known as the groundnut soup.

This soup is a great idea to add to your food menu and you will just love it unique taste and texture.

Ingredients

 

2cups groundnut

Spinach leaves

Tomatoes

Pepper

Bell pepper

Ginger(optional)

Beef

Crayfish

Dried fish/stock fish

Locust beans

Salt and stock cubes to taste.

 

Directions

• Blend pepper with ginger, toast groundnut in a dry non-stick pan for 5 mins and blend to powder, blend crayfish separately, mix with blended groundnut.

 

• Boil beef , dry fish with one stock cube and onion with very little water for the juices to extract..

 

• Add a little stock from the beef to groundnut powder to form paste.

 

• Place a pot on heat, add palm oil followed by blended pepper. Fry till almost dry, add beef stock, followed by groundnut paste, if too thick add a little water to form a creamy consistency.

 

• Add your beef, locust beans, one stock cube and stir.

 

• Lastly add steamed spinach and leave to simmer for 3-5mins.

 

Serve with any swallow/morsel of choice ( I didn't peel my groundnuts)

For fufu.
Easy method.

 

1. Buy fufu powder and stir in boiling water till its ready when thick.

2. Buy ready made fufu.

3.From the scratch... Buy cassava tubers, peel and dice and soak for 3 days without changing the water to let fufu ferment. 

Drain tubers by placing in a cheese cloth and putting an heavy object on it. Let it sit for 2-3 hrs. Place drained tubers in a mortar and pound to a pulp.

Bring water to boil and stir pulp in water till it forms a paste OR boil drained tubers in water and pound to a pulp.  I've tried all 3 methods...

Happy cooking

 

 

 

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Waina (Hausa rice cakes) or Massa

Nigeria is a country with diverse culture, tradition, people and with that comes diverse food recipe, cooking method and food in Nigeria. We truly can't complain about not having variety because we have a wide range of delicious delicacies to pick from. Ever heard of a rice cake, the Massa is a rice cake and it's pretty easy to make, thanks to the detailed description of our lovely subscriber.

The Waina (Hausa rice cake) or Massa is a delicacy coming from the Northern part of Nigeria. Our Subscriber Haija Swat from the Northern part of Nigeria sent in this food recipe and selfie to teach us how to make this special delicacy.

 

Ingredients:


1 milk cup raw tuwon rice

1/2 milk cup boiled tuwon rice

4 tablespoons of Sugar

1 level teaspoon of yeast

1 heaped spoon of baking powder

1/4 of a small Onion

Directions

• Wash and soak the tuwon rice for 3 to 4 hours. The idea is to soften the rice and make grinding easy.

• Blend it or grand it into a smooth paste. Even if it's watery, no worries, the cooked rice will take care of that later.

• Mix the yeast in water and add to the rice paste.

• Cover the paste and put it in the hottest part of the kitchen or under the sun or leave over night to make it fluffy.

• Mix the sugar and baking powder together and add it to the paste. And add the onions.

• Then add the little quantity of the cooked rice

Note: cook the rice very little and make it cool before turning it into the paste.

• Pre- heat oven. Grease a 12 hole muffin pan with 3 drops of oil or the hausa Tanda for making massa

• Fill each muffin hole 3/4 full with rice paste.

• Bake for 15-20 minutes or till an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Serve hot with stew or mian taushe. Or just eat with honey.


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Wheat and Eforiro with Skinless Chicken Recipe.

Eforiro is a rich vegetable soup basking with green vegetables (spinach/efo tete), tomatoes, meat and sea foods. The eforiro is a popular food common amongst the inhabitants of the Western part of Nigeria, also known as the Yoruba's, it's a special dish made at home, parties and other events.

Eforiro can be eaten with any swallows (Eba, wheat, pounded yam, semolina, fufu etc) and also can be eaten with rice. Deyinka sent in this food recipe and selfie to teach us on how to make the efo riro better. Also, she has made wheat to complement this vegetable soup. Good healthy food for everyone

 

Ingredients.


Green vegetables(spinach/tete)
Tomatoes
Onions
Pepper
Dried fish(soaked overnight)
Skinless chicken
Palm oil
Locust beans
Crayfish (roughly blended)
2 stock cubes
Salt
 

Directions.
 

•  Blend pepper, tomatoes and 2onions. Boil till the liquid dries up.

• Rinse chicken and boil with dried fish, one stock cube, a pinch of salt and diced onion.

• Pluck, rinse and slice your vegetables, lightly Blanch them in hot water for not more than one minute. Set aside.

• Heat your palm oil add 2 sliced onion balls, followed by crayfish, fry till translucent and add your boiled pepper. Keep stirring to avoid burning. Add your 2nd stock cube, stock from the chicken and locust beans.

• When the fried pepper is almost drying up, add your boiled chicken and fish stir together then add the vegetables.

• Leave to simmer for 2 minutes and turnoff the heat. The steam from the pot would soften the vegetables more.

For the wheat
 

• Place a pot of water to boil.. Once it boiled keep stirring the wheat till it forms a dough. Then add a little water to soften it up, keep stirring till its a little softer dough.

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Ewedu

Ewedu soup is a green, slimy soup mostly eaten by the western people of Nigeria, that is the Yoruba's. This soup can't be eaten alone but with chicken stew or beef stew or fish stew. The ewedu mixture can also include gbegiri (Beans Soup), that is, Ewedu, gbegiri and stew; this mixture is usually used to eat the Amala swallow. Some people use there Ewedu soup to eat white rice, but people mostly find this being an odd combination.

                                       How to Make The Ewedu Soup
Ingredients

Ewedu leaves
1/2 (half) table spoon of potash
1 (one) stock cube (optional)
Egusi(Melon) optional
Locust Beans (iru)
Crayfish
Salt to taste

Directions


Pick the leaves, removing the stem of the ewedu.. wash the leaves properly to remove sand

There are different methods of preparing this

1) you can blend the ewedu in a blender until smooth
2)slice the leaves into tiny bits and start with the cooking
3) put water on fire, add the ewedu leaves, the potash and allow to boil then add egusi (if using) and allow your egusi to cook for about 5min , when soft use the local broom(ijabe) to mash/pound it continously till the desired smoothness is achieved ,add salt to taste, stock cube

Serve with stew, gbegiri and amala

Plain Ewedu

Ewedu with Egusi

 

 

Serve Ewedu, with Gbegiri, stew and swallows (Amala or Eba or Semovita or wheat or pounded yam)

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African Salad

Abacha Ncha Or African salad as it's known is a traditional meal from the eastern part of Nigeria. No feast, festival or gathering is complete without the Abacha and that's for a good reason. The Abacha is tasty, healthy and easy to make. That is why it has travelled so quickly to other parts of Nigeria and is accepted by most.

The Abacha is now served in most beer spots and even hawked.

The Abacha is a healthy delicacy and easy to make. The smell and even look is all so inviting you can't wait most times to have a bite. The texture of this African salad is also amazing that you will love to savour and feel the texture before you swallow.

Abacha is pretty easy to make and here is how:

Ingredients

Abacha(cassava)
Oil
Salt
Fresh pepper

Stock Cube
Ugba(oilbean)
Garden eggs
Garden egg leaves
Stock fish
Ground crayfish
Oporo(fresh or dry)
Onions
Potash (optional)
Kpomo(optional)

Directions

• Soak cassava for 10 mins in water.
• Steam the stock fish until it's soft
•  Mix palm oil, potash, ground crayfish, ugba, fresh pepper, salt ,onions and stock cube to taste. add the cassava to the sauce and mix, add the cooked stock fish, kpomo and oporo mix thoroughly, bring to steam for 5 mins and it's ready.
• Garnish with the garden egg, garden egg leaves, onions and pepper.

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