Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 46: The food I love the most.

Warm greetings to my beloved country people Nigerians and steemians across the globe. Happy weekend to you all, I'm happy to also participate in this contest organized by #steem4nigeria on the topic: The food I love most.

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I will be sharing with you on the food I love most, please follow me slowly as I will give you the hints in details.

Are you a foodie or would you prefer snacks? Why do you love food or snacks?

To be sincere I'm not a foodie, but we all need food to survive in this life, we need food to boost our immune system inorder for us to grow well and look healthy. Eating good food will help strengthen your bones and also nourish your body.

As I am not a foodie, I only eat when the need arises, I mean when I am hungry and at home, I will make sure I eat good food, I can only snack when im outside and doesn't have access to good food.

I prefer food to snacks because I feel snacking is a real waste of money to me, because no matter how many type of snacks that I eat it will never satisfy me nor even give me the nutrients I need in my body.

Tell us about the food you love the most and it's healthy benefits and how often you eat it

One of the food I love most is okro soup because it is very easy to prepare, it's the best soup that can enable me eat much because of it's slippery nature, as it makes my swallow to pass through my throat very easily without stress😜

^{My draw soup and eba (garri)}

Okro soup is a super healthy food as it serves as a general weight loss aid, it is the source of antioxidants and it regulate blood sugar by reducing the rate of diabetes. In this our present world where a lot of people are suffering with diabetes and heart disease, so eating okro soup often will help and also provides the body with necessary nutrients to battle excessive weight loss, diabetes and even heart disease.

Finally, okro soup helps you to suppress hunger and helps minimized your food intake in your weight loss journey.

Okro soup is very easy to prepare and with less cost, I cooked it frequently especially when I'm financially down., as it will not cost me to break my bank account

Share step by step on how the food you love the most is prepared and add pictures too

Firstly, I will start by putting down all the ingredients I used in preparing my okro soup below.

^{The ingredients}

Ingredients

• Goat meat

• Cow skin

• Periwinkle (shell)

• Dried fish

• Okro

•Ogbono

• Pumpkin

• Ozuza

• Fresh pepper

• Red oil

• Salt

• stock cube

• Onions

Preparation

There are two different methods of preparing okro soup, the frying method and the traditional method. It was the traditional method I used in cooking mine.

I started by washing my meat, cow skin into the pot, and I seasoned it with stock cube, pounded fresh pepper, onions and salt then cook it for about 5-7minutes for the meat to tender

While the meat was on fire, I pounded the crayfish and set it aside, then I chop the okro into the mortal and pounded it few hands, without letting it to draw well.

I also sliced the floated pumpkin leaves and ozuza leaves and set aside too.

^{Ingredients well prepared}

When the meat was soften enough, I added the quantity of water I needed and pour in red oil, stir it and allowed to boil for about 2- 3minutes.

^{Putting the red oil}

Before then I have dissolved the grinded Ogbono with hot water, then I pour it into the pot of pot on fire.

^{Putting the ogbono}

I allowed it to boil for 2minutes, then I put the pounded okro into the pot, stir it all together and allowed it steam for 2 -3minutes.

^{Putting the okro}

Then after I put pounded crayfish and stir it well, and Periwinkle.

^{Putting the crayfish}

The next thing I put was my sliced pumpkin leaves and stir it well and allowed it to simmer for 2minutes.

^{Putting the pumpkin}

After that 2minutes I then put the sliced ozuza leaves, stir it all together and cover the pot slightly for 1 minutes to simmer.

^{Putting the ozuza leaves}

That was the last ingredient I put, then I turned of the gas and allowed it to simmer there, as my soup is ready.

^{My okro soup is ready}

Here is where I chosed to drop my pen and also call on @tripple-e, @loolluv and @eveetim to come and eat with me and also participate in the contest.

^{Dinner about to go down}

One Love 💕

@missyleo