OFE MPOTO SOUP

OFE MPOTO

Recipe for four servings

REQUIREMENTS

- 8 medium pieces beef
- 1 medium size Smoked fish
- 1 medium bunch crushed dried cocoyam leaves (mpoto)
- 2 tablespoon crayfish (ground)
- 1 wrap Ogili
- 2 tablespoons Ukpo (ground)
- 1½ cooking spoons Palm oil
- 1 tablespoon dried pepper (ground)
- 2 maggi cubes
- 2½ litres Water
- Salt to taste.
What you do

Roast or boil the ukpo without the skin till soft.Pound to a fine powder or you buy freshly ground one from the Ibo sellers in the market.

Wash, season the meat with salt and 1 maggi cube.Steam till the juice dries up.Add 2 cups of water and continue boiling for another 15 minutes.

Add the remaining water to the meat and the stock.Stir and allow boiling.Add the fish, pepper, Ogili, Crayfish and maggi cube.Stir.

Heat the palm oil in a pot and stir in the ground ukpo seed with a wooden spoon on low heat to avoid lump formation.Then add the dissolved ukpo to the meat pot and stir thoroughly.

Reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.Add the mpoto and salt to taste.Simmer for another few minutes.

Remove from heat serve with Eba or Cassava fufu.