How To Prepare Ofe Owerri Soup, Step by Step Guide

Ofe Owerri

 

Ofe Owerri is a highly nutritios vegetable soup usually flavoured with aromatic oha and uziza leaves.

Ofe Owerri Ingredients

8 pieces of beef

4 medium sized Stockfish

2  medium sized smoke fish

6 pices of washed snail

2 litres of water

Salt to taste

Cocoyam (red type)

2 cubes of Maggie crayfish

2 cooking spoons of palm oil

I tablespoon of dried pepper

Isam (perinwinkle out of shell)

Ukazi leaves (shredded)

1 onion

    Materials Needed

Pot

Water

Gas or Stove

Method Of Preparation

Step 1:

Wash the beef and season with onion, one Maggie cube and salt

     Step 2:

Allow to steam till juice dries up

     Step 3:

Add 2 cups of water, snail and stockfish, continue cooking till the stockfish is soft and the meat is cooked

     Step 4:

Pick, wash and shred the ugwu leaves

     Step 5:

Wash the fish thoroughly

     Step 6:

Add the fish and isam to the meat pot and add the remaining water

     Step 7:

Peel and wash the cocoyam

     Step 8:

Cut each into two pieces and pot, continue cooking until it is well cooked

     Step 9:

Remove the cooked cocoyam and pound and return to the pot as a thickener

     Step 10:

Add the Maggie crayfish, pepper and palm oil

     Step 11:

Stir thoroughly and reduce the heat

     Step 12:

Add the shredded ugu and ukazi leaves

     Step 13:

Stir and allow it to cook for about 6 minutes

     Step 14:

Stir and add salt to taste

     Step 15:

Remove from burner and serve with pounded yam or cassava fufu.

ENJOY!!!