Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, nsala soup with pounded yam. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nsala soup (ofe nsala) is one of the popular soups that are native to the Igbo Tribe in Nigeria. So if you are dating or married to a man from the south or eastern part of Nigeria, you can try giving him a meal of pounded yam and ofe nsala tonight. Ofe Nsala (Nsala Soup) is a delicious soup, popular in the eastern part of Nigeria.
Nsala soup with pounded yam is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Nsala soup with pounded yam is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have nsala soup with pounded yam using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nsala soup with pounded yam:
- Get Goat meat
- Prepare Dry fish
- Take Stock fish
- Get Crayfish
- Make ready Ehuru
- Make ready Opkei
- Take Fresh pepper
- Take leaf Uziza seed / Uziza
- Prepare leaf Utazi
- Make ready Teaspoonful of red oil
- Take Seasoning
- Take to taste Salt
- Prepare Yam
The soup originates from the Eastern part of Nigeria and Delta State particularly Ogwashi-uku and Ubulu-uku towns. This delicacy is quite different from Banga soup and Afghan soup. Nsala soup or white soup as commonly called by Nigerians is a meal famous to the eastern tribe and riverine area of Nigeria. The first step, peel the yam cubes, wash and boil.
Steps to make Nsala soup with pounded yam:
- Wash your meat, fish, and stock. Season with knorr cubes and salt. Leave to boil for 20minutes. Blend your pepper, uziza seed, utazi leaf, and crayfish. Pound the Ehuru(native seasoning) and add to your boiling meat. Drop a teaspoonful of palm oil and allow to boil. Then, make a small paste from your boiled yam and add to the soup as thickener. Allow to boil for 5munites. Add the uziza leaf, stir and turn off your heat.
- Cut and boil your yam till very tender. Pound in a molter. Keep adding hot water from the boiled yam and keep pounding all the lumps disappear and it becomes fluffy and soft.
- Serve hot with chilled natural juice.
This is the Nigerian Soup you want to serve your in-laws or any other special August visitor if you are a correct Igbotic person. Nsala soup is an exception, where pounded yam is used instead. Wash the dried fish and stock fish with hot water to soften the fish and remove dirt. Add more water to the meat on the boil, add the dried fish, stockfish, and crayfish, cook for about ten minutes before adding the pounded yam. Ofe Nsala (Nsala Soup) is the Nigerian Soup you want to serve to your in laws.
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