Preparing African Recipe: Edikakong Soup 🍛

in hive-148497 •  4 years ago 

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Hello family. Greetings from the South-Southern part of Nigeria. Hope you all having a peaceful day?

Today i bring to you a recipe from Nigeria, known as Edikakong soup. This meal is commonly eaten in the South-Southern part of Nigeria and i'm also delighted to say that it's my favourite soup.

So, the preparation, here it goes

INGREDIENTS

¶ 1 kilogram of goat meat, or any meat of your choice
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¶ Water leaf {Ceylon spinach}(already sliced)
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¶ Pumpkin leaves
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¶ Egg fish
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¶ Smoked catfish
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¶ Stockfish
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¶ 3 bulbs of Onion, some cubes of seasoning
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¶ Okazi leaves (grinded already)
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¶ 75cl of palm oil
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¶ Periwinkles
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¶ Dried prawns (grinded)
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¶ Grinded cameroun pepper
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PROCEDURES

Step 1: Spicing and steaming meat

Washing meat thoroughly with salt, at least three times
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Spicing meat with onions, seasoning cubes, pepper and salt to taste

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Stir, Place on heat, without water and allow to steam until nearly soft
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Meat at nearly soft stage
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Adding water to boiled meat
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Washing and adding stockfish
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Stir and allow to boil
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Preparing dried catfish and eggfish

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When our stock gets to this point, its ready to take other ingredients
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Adding grinded crayfish
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Washing andpreparing periwinkles
Wash periwinkles until very neat
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Adding other fish

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Stir
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Adding seasoning cubes and salt

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Stir
Adding palm oil and stir
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Allow to boil for about 10minutes

Adding water leaf
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Stir and allow to steam for another 10 minutes
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Washing, slicing and adding pumpkin leaves
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Stirl
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Allow to boil for just 5minutes, then add the grinded okazi leaves
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Our delicious Edikakong soup is ready. Can be eaten with swallow or rice

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Thank you for taking time to read through my post, i hope you've learnt something new.

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