could you please help with the recipes for the following Rivers state delicacies:

onunu (very ripe plantain pounded together with yam and palm oil and eaten with peppery fresh fish sauce)

buru fulo (fresh fish pepper soup cooked with yam at the same time)

native soup (assorted seafood mix eg mgbe, isam and ngolo, fresh fish with a binder maybe achi? )

thank you. ill be so grateful. also when rivers people say fresh fish what kind of fish would that be?

thanks once again

recipes for onunu: fresh pepper, onion, palm oil, salt, maggi, crayfish (optional), yam, ripe plantains, fresh fish (preferably cat fish or tilapia).

procedure: peel the yam and cut into preferable small sizes, wash and put in the pot, add water and cook for 3mins, peel the plantain and cut to preferable small sizes, add to the boiling yam. add salt, pepper,onion, maggi, crayfish after 3 mins, clean ur fresh fish, wash and steam together with the yam and plantain. add enough water and allow to cook 4 10 mins. remove the yam and plantain, put in a mortar and pound, add the pounded fresh pepper, palm oil and salt to taste, pound all together till it,s mixed properly and smooth enough. remove and put in a plate, pour ur pepper soup in anther plate, ur food is ready, enjoy!

native soup recipe: prewinkle, ngolo or mgbe, fresh prawn, grounded achi, fresh fish, salt, pepper, maggi, palm oil, uziza leaf (optional).

procedure: put the quantity of water u want in a put and put on the fire, wen the water starts boiling add palm oil, salt,pepper, fresh fish and maggi and allow to boil for 5mins, add ur grounded achi till u get ur desired thickness, stir for a while so as to prevent the achi from forming lumps and being burnt at the bottom of the pot, after three mins add ur ngolo, prewinkle, fresh prawn and cook 4 three mins. add ur uziza leaf and cook 4 two mins, bring the pot down. ur soup is ready, u can eat with pounded yam, semo, garri or fufu. .

fresh fish is a fish dat has just been caught from the river, ie a fish dat has not gone thru any method of preservation likr freezing or drying, and as soon as it exceeds the day it was caught it is no longer seen as fresh fish and most times it is sold in markets that are close to the river sides like town market in borokiri.

Sanrima
thanks!!!!!! u are a darling. was beginning to wonder whether nobody had ever heard of the food.

please cld u clarify a bit on the onunu? im i supposed to grind the fresh pepper and add to the motar when i am pounding the yam and plantain?

thanks.

yes cos it will make it more spicy and also the colour of the grounded red pepper will make it look more appetizing.
u are welcome! i love cooking as a hubby and i also love learning new recipes.

I'm wondering where is the native soup from what part of Rivers because when i saw this post i asked momsie (she is from okrika) and she gave a different recipe. I will try it this way though. Oh i love onunu , i wish i had a mortar and pestal to make it.

hi omoge25

the native soup is popular with the kalabari and okrika people.
its full of lots of seafood!
please could you post the recipe your mom gave u?
thank you.

Okay but I don't think I'll eat that.

Sanrima, thanks so much for this recipe! I have fresh fish ready to cook and my hubby has been asking for native soup...I didn't know where to start. But this has been a great help. Thank you!!!!!!

sanrima: recipes for onunu: fresh pepper, onion, palm oil, salt, maggi, crayfish (optional), yam, ripe plantains, fresh fish (preferably cat fish or tilapia).

procedure: peel the yam and cut into preferable small sizes, wash and put in the pot, add water and cook for 3mins, peel the plantain and cut to preferable small sizes, add to the boiling yam. add salt, pepper,onion, maggi, crayfish after 3 mins, clean ur fresh fish, wash and steam together with the yam and plantain. add enough water and allow to cook 4 10 mins. remove the yam and plantain, put in a mortar and pound, add the pounded fresh pepper, palm oil and salt to taste, pound all together till it,s mixed properly and smooth enough. remove and put in a plate, pour ur pepper soup in anther plate, ur food is ready, enjoy!

For d fresh pepper, u sed it shd be poured in2 d mortar wid d yam n plantain. Do u mean d fresh pepper will be eaten raw

Urhbob cusine blog http://cookingncleaning..co.uk/2012/10/gana-pepper-soup-urhobo-pepper-soup-pt.html

Onunu is boiled yam and boiled plantain pounded together with only palm oil( few drops for coloring)

Hope nobody died from the previous recipe

Pls we need pictures