Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ofe owerri. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ofe Owerri is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ofe Owerri is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Ofe Owerri was made popular by an Igbo song that says that he who is not rich does not eat Ofe Owerri LOL. This is because several types of meat and fish are used when preparing Ofe Owerri. But you do not have to break the bank to prepare this delicious soup from Imo State, Nigeria!
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook ofe owerri using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ofe Owerri:
- Take Assorted meats, chicken, catfish, offal, stockfish, dried fish,
- Prepare bit of uziza, ugu and ukazi leaves to get a handful, seasoning
- Get Palm oil, ogili, salt and pepper, cocoyam, water
- Get Bulgur wheat in place of semo
In ofe owerri, there is the presence of beef as an ingredient in cooking ofe owerri. Ofe Owerri is a community symbol of the Owerri people of Eastern Nigeria and it's environs. They are so proud of this rich and expensive soup that songs have been rendered about it. To make Ofe Owerri for your guests is a thing of pride, because it represents affluence and you are also judged by the quantity and quality of the ingredients used.
Steps to make Ofe Owerri:
- Start by soaking your stockfish for around an hour. After that peel and cook your coco yam until it is very soft; then pound it in a mortar until the paste comes out smooth.
- Wash the meat or chicken very well before putting it in a pot; season it to your taste, add a little water and cook till almost soft and edible. Add the stockfish, dry fish. Wash your cat fish with ACV to kill any form of bacteria.
- When you have confirmed that your meat is done, you can add your washed cat fish and leave to cook for 4 minutes. Then you can add pepper, crayfish and palm oil.
- After about 2 minutes, add coco yam in bits and leave to dissolve. Put shredded leaves, ogili and salt to taste, stir and then leave to simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Bring down your pot of nutritious Ofe Owerri because it is ready for consumption. I prefer bulgur wheat as swallow… Enjoy!
Ofe Owerri, is a very popular traditional vegetable soup from the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria. "Ofe" means soup and "Owerri" is the capital of Imo state in South Eastern Nigeria, so as you can guess already, Ofe Owerri is peculiar to the people of Owerri especially. Two different types of vegetables are commonly used for Ofe Owerri, which can be mixture of any of these; Ukazi(okazi)&Ugu, Ora(oha)&Ukazi(okazi) OR Ugu&Oha. Ofe means soup, Owerri is the capital of Imo state in Nigeria, hence the name Ofe Owerri which literally means Owerri soup. Make Ofe Owerri proper out of your kitchen within the subsequent jiffy? Wondering how to prepare dinner Ofe Owerri or just put, how to put together Ofe Owerri?
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