Recipe: Perfect Ofe Akwu

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Ofe Akwu. Instructions Put smoked turkey in a pot with the meat stock, add chopped onions and season with bouillon powder. Add crayfish, Ogiri okpei or iru, Cameroon pepper and crushed pepper flakes stir to combine then Turn heat down to. Scoop in the palm oil concentrate, stir and taste.

Ofe Akwu Now, add the beef, dry fish and stock, the onions, crayfish and pepper and leave to boil very well. Add the scent leaves or other vegetable and salt to taste.. This takes the Ofe Akwu to a. You can have Ofe Akwu using 13 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ofe Akwu

  1. Prepare 1 kg of Palm fruit.
  2. You need of Beef.
  3. Prepare of Stockfish.
  4. Prepare of Ponmo.
  5. You need of Dry fish.
  6. Prepare Tin of tomatoes med size.
  7. It's of Ogili.
  8. Prepare of Seasoning.
  9. Prepare of Nchuanwu (basil).
  10. It's of Ground crayfish.
  11. It's of Dry pepper(ground).
  12. It's of Thinly sliced onions.
  13. You need of Salt.

Soak the dry fish till soft then debone and break into pieces. If using smoked fish, rinse, debone and break into pieces. Ofe Akwu is a palm nut stew that is native to the Igbos in Nigeria. It is similar to the Efik's Banga Soup,which is traditional prepared with native spices, known as Banga spices.

Ofe Akwu instructions

  1. Rinse palm fruit well,put in a pot and boil for 20mins till soft.put in a mortar and pound to get extract,pour water into,it to get oil,sieve..
  2. Pour extract into a pot add tin tomato puree,cook,till thick.In a separate pot,boil beef,stock fish,Dry fish and ponmo with seasoning,when done,add to palm fruit mixture,stir,taste to adjust,add other ingredients,basil last,stir,boil for 1min,enjoy....

These spices gives the soup a unique taste and flavor, which makes it a bit different from the Igbo's Ofe Akwu. Ofe Akwu is one of the igbo people of Eastern Nigeria's most popular soups. It is the Igbo version of the all-too-popular Banga soup. It is a very rich soup made with Palm nut extract/juice. Ofe Akwu is mostly served with boiled rice, unlike the Delta version which is mainly served with Starch or other swallows.