Hello everybody, it is John, 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. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ofe owerri simply means Owerri soup (soup indigenous to the people of Owerri). I used to think that I would never make another soup that would comfortably compete with the likes of nsala and oha but. Ofe Owerri was made popular by an Igbo song that says that he who is not rich does not eat Ofe Owerri LOL.
Ofe Owerri is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Ofe Owerri is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Prepare Assorted meats, chicken, catfish, offal, stockfish, dried fish,
- Prepare 1 bit of uziza, ugu and ukazi leaves to get a handful, seasoning
- Take Palm oil, ogili, salt and pepper, cocoyam, water
- Take Bulgur wheat in place of semo
Ofe Owerri is a nutritious traditional soup;popular in the eastern part of Nigeria. Learn how to make this rich soup. Ofe Owerri, is a delicious traditional soup from Owerri, Imo state(Eastern Nigeria). 'OFE OWERRI SPECIAL' Follows Patience Ozokwor, Vitalis Ndubuisi, Benedict Johson, Frank Artus, Tonto Dike, Ejine Okorafor. Ofe owerri is a nutricious vegetable soup usually flavoured with aromatic oha and uziza leaves.
Instructions 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!
It is called ofe owerri because it is an indigenous soup of the owerri people of Imo state. If you have never heard or tried Ofe Owerri (sometimes spelled as Ofe Owere), you are definitely in for a treat. Ofe Owerri , which is usually prepared with two different vegetables namely Uziza and Ugu or Uziza and Ukazi, is a favourite of the Igbos from Imo State, South-eastern Nigeria. 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. Ofe Owerri which means Owerri soup is peculiar to the people of Owerri, the capital of Imo state.
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