Recipe Friday: How To Make Owo Soup

Hello Mamalettes, Welcome to another edition of our Recipe Friday.Lol. I have missed this section so much, it's been a while since we posted any recipe, did you miss it also? Today we are going to be getting a recipe that I just discovered recently after a long time.

When I was in the university I had this Benin friend Praise and whenever she came to school she always talked about how much she missed the Owo soup that her mum cooks. As a typical Yoruba girl na, I did not know what it was until one day she came back to school with the soup and I must tell you I was floored by how good it was.

So recently I was thinking of something new to cook for my family (don’t mind me I like experimenting) and I came across this recipe for Owo soup on Knorr Nigeria. Imagine my excitement oo, my only hope was that my own would be as sweet as Praise’s mum’s own.

What I liked about the recipe was the fact that the ingredients were very easy to find and the recipe was very easy to follow. When I cooked it ehn, my husband was so impressed even me sef I was impressed. I decided to share the recipe with you and I hope you like it.

INGREDIENTS

• Goat meat or assorted meat
• Palm Oil
• Knorr cubes
• Potash(Kaun)
• Tomatoes
• Ata rodo
• Crayfish
• Smoked Fish

PREPARATION METHOD

1. Boil and season your meat. Once they have sufficiently cooked with some stock left, add your blended tomatoes and pepper.
2. Add the crayfish and smoked fish.
3. Bring the contents of the pot to a gentle simmer.
4. Dissolve potash about the size of half - 3 quarters of a Knorr cube in water and add to the pot and bring to the boil. The presence of the tomatoes will mean it wouldn't bubble up as much.
5. Leave it to cook and in a few minutes, you will notice that the addition of the potash has caused the prior watery stock to thicken a little. Take it off the heat and let it cool down a little.
6. Stir in Palm oil into the pot. The soup will thicken and the color will change to a pale shade of yellowish orange

Serve with green plantain (boiled or grilled) or boiled yam.

Source: Knorr

 

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