GARRI AND OKRA SOUP

Ingredients

250g Okra

Cray Fish, Iced Mackerel Fish, Stock Fish, Dry Fish

Beef, Cow tripe (shaki), Cow leg, Chopped Ponmo (cow skin) – Not compulsory

Salt and Knorr Cubes

Scotch-Bonnet Pepper (Atarodo)

Onions

Vegetable (Spinach or Pumpkin (Ugwu) leaves)

3 Cooking Spoons of Fine Palm Oil

Preparing the Garri (Eba)
Garri is ground Cassava. It is a kind of grain. For one serving, a cup of garri should be enough. Hence, in a pot, add a cup of water and leave to boil completely or you can boil water in a kettle, then pour in a bowl. Then in bits, spread the garri in the boiling water and turn with a turning stick. If it's for just one person, you can turn with a spoon; a strong one (Please currently bear with me, I should upload a proper video soon on how to do this). Thanks.

Preparing the Okra soup

· Grate the lady fingers using a grater to enable it to draw. As an alternative, you may chop the lady finger into tiny pieces or blend them using a blender and little water.

· Blend the Crayfish and Pepper together

· Next, you boil the stock fish for about 20-30 minutes and leave to soak in hot water for some time

· Take the shaki (cow tripe) with the cowl leg and place in a pot of boiling water. Season it and boil it till it’s done·
. Wash any of the leaves of your choice and chop into tiny pieces

· Add onions, Knorr cubes with the beef in a pot and cook for some time, then add the shaki, cow leg, ponmo, stock fish and iced mackerel. Leave till it’s well cooked

· Place the palm oil bottle in the microwave for just a minute or two (if bottle is small) to dissolve the oil; if solid or you may pour the solid oil into a heated pot to dissolve.

· Place the grated okra in the oil and fry adding the meat stock bit by bit, until the okra starts to draw. You may now add pepper plus the fish, meat etc. to the mix. If salt not enough, you may add too. Stir well and leave to simmer a bit (It is advisable not to cover the pot as it is believed that this will affect the okra’s tendency to draw) xx

· You may now serve your okra with Amala, Semovita, Pounded yam, Fufu or any swallow of choice.

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