How is ofe owerre prepared?. What are the ingredients?

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Av only heard abt ofe nsala

Ofe owerre and Ofe achara dey.

ol' boy dont play with my favorite soup oh!

Its quite easy to make though, its almost like cooking egusi except you dont add any melon seeds and you cook the vegetables (ugu) for longer. My mom always has stock fish and a bit of pepper in it as well. Best meat to go with it - fresh bush meat!

What is that?

Fhemmmy:

What is that?

Owerri ethnic soup.

While you are at it,you should be listening to this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xBm3Fz54cM 

xpensiv soup lyk dey always say, wonder y tho

Because the ingredients are expensive unlike the regular ogbono or egusi soup.

- 1 kg assorted meats
- 2 medium size stockfish
- 2 medium dried fish(Asa)
- 1 tablespoon grounded pepper
- 2 tablespoon ground crayfish
- 2 cups Ukazi leaves (shredded)
- 2 small bunch ugwu
- 2 cups smoked prawns
- 1 small bulb onion
- 4 medium size cocoyam (red type)
- 2 cooking spoon palm oil
- 2 litres stock or water
- 2 maggi cubes - salt to taste

What you do

Pick, wash and shred the Ugwu leaves as well as the Ukazi leaves.(This can be done in the market)

Wash the meat thoroughly and place in a large pot.
Season with salt,onion and ground pepper, add some water and cook for 10minutes or allow steaming till juice dries up.
Add 2 cups of water and the stockfish continue cooking till the stockfish is soft and the meat cooked.
Wash and debone smoked fish and then dress and wash the smoked prawns.
Add the fish and prawns to the meat pot and add the remaining water and cook for I0 minutes.

Peel and wash cocoyam, cut each into two pieces then add to the pot continue cooking until tender.
Remove the cooked cocoyam and pound.
Mould the pounded cocoyam into small balls and add to soup as a thickener,

Stir in the crayfish,pepper, maggi cubes and palm oil.
Stir thoroughly and reduce the heat
Add the shredded Ugwu and Ukazi leaves, stir and allow cooking for about 6 minutes.
Stir and add salt to taste.

Remove from heat and serve hot with cassava fufu or pounded yam

Thanks AmakaOne for the info.

Amakaone,thank God for the knoelege you impact which actually saves some ugly situations.please dear sister,help me send a maggi cookbook to my mail oduneyebunmi@yahoo.com expecting it soon PLEASE!lol

u've been doing pretty well on this thread.
Kindly send to me this cook book of urs to my email, augustaaa2000@yahoo.com

i'll be most gratefl

@Amakaone
You are truly blessed!You know so much African cuisine. Sorry for being forward, are you married? If yes, then your husband is, one, lucky, dude; kudos

Dear Amaka,
I know i am extremely stale with this nairaland thing, lol its quite sad i just joined today cuz sumhow i ran into one of ur posts on google and i was very impressed with the recipes and all i tried the efo 1 and it came out BANGING ; )
I dont know how to use this thing properly , tried looking for a the link to send a private msg but i dont think thts enabled on here
ANYWAYS LONG STORY SHORT, I would love a recipe book if u have 1, , and i am in desperate need of the ewa agoyin recipe
judging from all ur posts ure beyond amazing with this cooking thing ' i envy u ; (
My fiance is a sucka for tht and he hasnt had it in ages sooooo i would love to try it
HELP ,
i'm desperate ATM, *sniff*

AMAKA where art thou??

open restaurant now, wouldnt mind being ur regular customer

Onye adighi ego o kpa o ji eri ofe owerre ? ?
odoko o si olee aga nu.
lmao.

hackney:

Onye adighi ego o kpa o ji eri ofe owerre ? ?
odoko o si olee aga nu.
lmao.

Itumo/

Amakaone u've been such a wonderful darlyn on this thread.
Kindly send to me a copy of Maggie E-book or any cook book of urs to my email - godswillesthy@yahoo.com.

Amakaone, i wanna make ofe owelle. I have dried ugu . Do i need to soak it in water before useing it. I dont have access to fresh ugu. I know I can get cocoyam from oriental stores. and finally, I dont have ukazi, which other vegetable can I substitute. Can Kale serve. I am in USA.