Ofé Nsala.(WHITE SOUP)
Ingredients:
Live chicken OR Goat meat
1 medium size smoked Fish
Dried Pepper ( Cameroun type preferable)
1 teaspoon Uziza seeds (ground)
2 pieces Uda (crushed)
1 tablespoon crayfish (ground)
Few slices Uziza leaves (as herb)
1-2 table spoons yam flour or 2 palm size flattened pounded yam (to thicken soup)
Water ( enough to serve 4 people’s soup)
Seasoning to taste(Knorr cube)
Salt to taste
Cooking directions:
-Wash, season, steam chicken with pepper and salt. -Add pieces of yam and cook; Take out when cooked and pound for the thickener.
-Wash fish, add to pot with the spices and crayfish when chicken is almost cooked. Check the seasoning and pepper at this point.
-Add more water to the the pot, bring to boil, add the pounded yam and cook till the soup thickens to the desired consistency
#NOTE: If you are using yam flour, dissolve in cold water into a paste and stir quickly into the soup water; Stir well to prevent the paste forming a big lump in the pot. Then leave to boil until the soup thickens.
-Lastly add the sliced Uziza leaves. Cook for 2-3 minutes and soup is ready.
-Serve with confirm pounded yam, fufu or your preferred swallow…
