Nsala soup.

 Nsala soup.

Ingredients:

Goat meat 

Kpomo

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

Salt to taste

Cooking directions:

-Wash, season, steam the goat meat 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 goat meat is almost cooked. 

-Add okporoko, kpomo and 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...😊