Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, nsala soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nsala soup, also know as white soup is a popular soup in Igboland. Igbo is a popular Nigerian ethnic group. The unique feature of this soup is that you do not cook it with Palm oil. The major components of this soup are yam and catfish.
Nsala soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Nsala soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have nsala soup using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Nsala soup:
- Take 1 big cat Fish
- Take 1 teaspoon Crayfish
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready 2 Maggi cubes
- Prepare 5 medium sized sliced yam
- Prepare 1 small sized Onion
- Prepare 1 medium sized dry fish
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Pepper
- Get 1 wrap Ogiri(fermented locust bean)
It is commonly seen in the eastern part of Nigeria, the Igbos and some parts of south south. It is also called white soup because it requires little or no palm oil. Nsala soup is made with small pieces of yam with utazi leaves. The soup originates from the Eastern part of Nigeria and Delta State particularly Ogwashi-uku and Ubulu-uku towns.
Instructions to make Nsala soup:
- Wash dryfish with warm water and salt.remove the bones.
- Boil with onion,Salt and Maggi for at least 20minutes.
- Slice out yam and boil for 15minutes.pound very well with mortar.
- Add more water to the dry fish and boil.onces is boiling add the pounded yam
- Allow to boil very well.awell.add the cat Fish.
- Add onion and salt cover the pot and boil for about 10-15minutes.
- Uncover the pot and add pepper,crayfish and ogiri.
- Boil for another 7minutes.soup is ready.
Nsala soup is made with small pieces of yam with utazi leaves. The soup originates from the Eastern part of Nigeria and Delta State particularly Ogwashi-uku and Ubulu-uku towns. This delicacy is quite different from Banga soup and Afghan soup. A major ingredient of Nsala Soup is the cat fish which gives the soup a unique taste. Call it Ofe Nsala, Nsala Soup, or White Soup, this is one of the rich and delicious soups one would find in Igbo land and the South-South parts of Nigeria.
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