𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐼 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑. 𝐼 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐼 𝒉𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝒉𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝒉𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝒉𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝒉𝑖𝑐𝒉 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝒉𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑦. If there's one thing I learned from momma I think 'it's how to cook but since I started living on my own due to work stress I think that has been a harder thing to do but today I decided to try out my skills and see how that goes, lol. Please don't laugh too much, I'll really try best and it's gonna be yummy, hopefully.
I decided to prepare a native soup or "Ofor soup" as it's called in our native language. So I decided to get all the ingredients required and some start the process. The items available are:-
Meat
Stock fish
Canda(kpomo)
Red oil
Seasoning (knorr cubes)
Ofor (for thickening)
Salt
Crayfish
Uziza leaf.
Pepper
Onions
I started with the washing of the meat and soaking the stock fish with warm water .
After soaking the stock fish for few minutes, I washed it and slice the canda with the meat. Add some pepper, onions, salt and seasoning before steaming.
I steamed it for few minutes with a little water so that the spices can soak into the meat to give it a better taste. I allow it to boil for some time then I measured enough water that'll be enough for the soup this is the water that'll be used to cook the soup. I poured the oil so everything will boil accordingly. I covered the pot to allow the soup to heat. After boiling for few minutes, it's time to add the Ofor for thickening
Then allow to boil for like three minutes then add the uziza leaf finally and cook for two minutes or less the your native soup is ready to serve
