Cooking Week6: My Cooking Skills

It's a pleasure to participate in this contest where I am to showcase my cooking skills. Cooking is a valuable skill which is very important in our daily lives. While creating good memories with cooking, we can enhance creativity, eat healthy and nutritious meals and also preserve our cultural heritage in the process.

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For the purpose of this contest, I will be sharing recipe of CATFISH PEPPER SOUP. Pepper soup can be served with boiled yam, plantain or rice. I will accompany mine with white rice. Pepper soup is among the most popular food in my region, many enjoy it better during raining season.

Let's read through while I list out the ingredients used and step-by-step preparation procedures.

Raw ingredients

Ingredients Used

• Fresh catfish
• Rice
• Onions
• Fresh pepper
• Salt
• Maggi
• Local spice
• Scent leaf
• Carrot

Part 1: Preparation Procedures For Pepper Soup

Step 1: clean the fish thoroughly with salt and hot water. Allow it to be in that water for at least 5 minutes ( apart from making the fish clean, salt and hot water makes it strong). Without this method, the fish will come out in pieces after cooking.

Washing the catfish

Step 2: put it into the pot and season with; salt, maggi, onions and fresh pepper. Steam for 5 minutes.

Seasoning

Step 3: add a little water and start the main cooking process by adding onion, fresh pepper and maggi. This time no salt because salt was used to wash and also added during steaming process. Allow the pot boil for a while.

Adding water

Step 4: add the local spice, cook for 1 minutes then add scent leaf and allow to boil for extra 2 minutes.

Adding local spice	Adding scent leaf

In less than 30 minutes, my catfish pepper soup was ready.

Pepper soup is ready

Part 2: Preparation Procedures for White Rice

Step 1: wash, parboil and set to cook by adding just salt.

Parboiled rice

Step 2: once the water reduce, add carrot and the rice will be set for consumption.

Rice was almost ready at this point

Here's the final presentation of my dish.

Catfish pepper soup served with rice

It was very easy and less time consuming preparing this meal. Once you have a good cooking skill, it becomes easier to explore through the kitchen. I hope you like my recipe? Thank you for reading!

I will invite @eliany, @josepha and @ninapenda to join the cooking contest.