It been a long time we featured a food recipe on this blog and we are back with a bang .I have been on a healthy journey lately and during my search I found this recipe is from one of my favourite food blogs ever www.eatingnigerian.com.
A delightful soup of okro with a selection of seafood
Author: Ify
Serves: 12-15
Ingredients
- 5 to 6 Large Tatashe (Substitute with 4 Large Red Bell Peppers plus 2 to 3 Red Scotch Bonnets)
- 2 Medium Onions
- 1 Kg Okro (Okra)
- 1 Kg Crab (cleaned and rinsed thoroughly)
- 1 Kg Medium Tiger Prawns (peeled and deveined, tail on)
- ½ Kg Shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 1 Kg Croaker Fish Steaks
- 150 mls Red Palm Oil
- 2 Stock Cubes (10 grams each)
- 3 teaspoons Salt
- 8 Tablespoons Ground Dry Crayfish
Instructions
- Deseed
tatashe or red bell pepper, peel onions. Rinse pepper and onions
thoroughly, roughly cut them and place in a blender with about 250 mls
water. Blend until smooth then set aside. Rinse the okro a couple of
times, drain and chop. - Place
crabs into a large pot then add the blended pepper and onion. Place
over medium high heat adding about 400 mls more water to the pot then
bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium. Add palm oil, stock cubes, salt
and ground crayfish and allow to simmer for about 20 minutes. - Stir
in chopped okro and then croaker fish steaks. Taste and adjust
seasoning to your taste, adding salt as needed (if you want it hotter,
you may add some chili powder at this point) and allow to simmer for
about 5 minutes before gently stirring in the prawn and shrimp. Simmer
for an additional 5 minutes before taking of the heat. Serve with
swallow, rice or your preferred accompaniment. Enjoy!
SOURCE: EATINGNIGERIAN.COM