Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, maize and cassava swallow with okro soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Maize and cassava swallow with okro soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Maize and cassava swallow with okro soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
Maize flour, cassava flour, water, for the soup, okro, red oil, smoked fish, seasoning, salt, potash, onion, scotch bonnet, ginger and garlic paste. Make a paste of the maize and cassava flour and cook in by stirring in the boiling water once thick allow to cook for. Banku and Kenkey are two more Fufu-like staples from Western Africa, served with a soup or stew or sauce. Both are usually made from ground corn (maize), as are Sadza and Ugali, though Banku can also be made from a mixture of maize and grated Cassava tuber.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook maize and cassava swallow with okro soup using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Maize and cassava swallow with okro soup:
- Make ready Maize flour
- Take Cassava flour
- Get Water
- Make ready For the soup
- Prepare Okro
- Make ready Red oil
- Make ready Smoked fish
- Take Seasoning
- Get Salt
- Take Potash
- Prepare Onion
- Make ready Scotch bonnet
- Prepare Ginger and garlic paste
This stew can be served with your choice of swallow like Eba, Fufu, Amala and the likes but for me, I just like to eat as is - yes I mean I just use a spoon to dig and eat the. Okro soup is one of the many vegetables soups that is widely paired okele in Nigeria. It is either cooked on its own (ila) or cooked already with sauce Ila asepo is the "no fuss" version of okro soup; it is very quick, and easy to prepare. It is a life saver when you don't have a lot of ingredients at home.
Steps to make Maize and cassava swallow with okro soup:
- Bring water to boil
- Make a paste of the maize and cassava flour and cook in by stirring in the boiling water once thick allow to cook for 10mnts
- Add in the maize and cassava flour directly and be mixing it gradually not once until it is thick and smooth, sprinkle some hot water, cover the pot and allow to cook for 10-15mnts on a low heat
- In a pot add red oil, onions, scotch bonnet, ginger and garlic paste and saute for about 5 minutes
- Add water, smoked fish and allow to boil
- Add the grated okro and little potash and allow to cook for some minutes then add the seasoning, salt and allow to cook for 5 minutes
It is either cooked on its own (ila) or cooked already with sauce Ila asepo is the "no fuss" version of okro soup; it is very quick, and easy to prepare. It is a life saver when you don't have a lot of ingredients at home. Wash the okra, slice it and put it in a dish and pound it and add a small cup of water and mix it with a spoon. Slice the fish and wash also ground the garlic and the egussi. Make the Fufu: Boil water then reduce heat and stir in farina (or yam or garri) flour.
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