Easy Recipe For Ofe Akwu as we no dey take sunday rice dey play for east

Ingredients:
600gms Assorted Meats

1 Medium Size Fresh Fish

2-3 Pieces Stock Fish

Smoked Fish (I’m not using any but you can if you want to)

1 Tin 400gms Palm nut extract

1/4 Cup Washed/Dry Scent Leaves/ Basil/ Efinrin

1/2 Cup Washed Ugu Leaves

2 Tablespoons Ground Crayfish

2 Knorr Chicken Cubes

Chicken/Beef Seasoning Of Your Choosing

Small Chunk Ogiri Okpei/ Dawadawa

3-4 Yellow Or Red Scotch Bonnet (Atarodo)

Salt To Taste

Preparation:
Boil your meats on medium to high heat first, starting with tougher meats like Cow leg, Shaki, tough kpomo. Season with 1 tablespoon ground crayfish, Knorr chicken cubes, your chosen seasoning and salt, then add softer meats like beef, goat meat, chicken. When all the meats are tender, add the stock fish and boil all till soft.

Blend/ grind your Scotch Bonnet and Ogiri/Dawadawa with  water, you can also add Crayfish to the blend….

Pour the blend into the boiled meats, stir and combine, leave to cook for 2 minutes.

Turn the heat down to low, place a bigger pot on the hob, add the palm nut extract, then add the stock from the meats. If you haven’t got enough stock, add water, you’ll need the consistency to be quite fluid; a semi thickish consistency. Taste for salt/seasoning, add more if required….

I didn’t need much seasoning as my stock was very well seasoned…

Leave to combine for 5 minutes, then add the fresh fish. Leave to cook for 5-6 minutes.
Take the fish out to prevent it from breaking in the soup. Now, add the cooked meats and crayfish, stir and combine, cook for 5 minutes…

Try not to add too much Crayfish so it doesn’t mask the authentic Ofe Akwu taste.

Add the Scent leaves/Efinrin/Basil leaves, then the cooked fresh fish, leave for 2 minutes…

Add the Ugu leaves, stir and combine or just rock the pot back and forth a few times to combine so the fish remain intact. Switch the heat off….

Leave to simmer with the residual heat for 2-3 minutes, the oil will settle on the top at this time, and that’s it…See how gorgeous it looks? Trust me, the taste is just as gorgeous….

Serve your Ofe Akwu with boiled rice or any swallow of your choice…