Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, ofe nsala w/ chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Do you want to know how to cook Nsala soup with chicken? This is very good because we will give you one simple recipe. Follow these steps and satisfy the appetite of your African dishes are very popular for their ingenious and delicious taste.
Ofe Nsala w/ Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Ofe Nsala w/ Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook ofe nsala w/ chicken using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ofe Nsala w/ Chicken:
- Get 1 whole hard chicken cut in pieces
- Get Cocoyam boiled and pounded
- Get 1 Tbs ground Uziza seeds
- Make ready Handful chopped Uziza leaves
- Prepare 4 Tbs ground crayfish
- Get 2.5 Tbs ground cayenne pepper
- Prepare 2 Uda crushed and deseeded
- Get Salt
- Make ready Cubes Seasoning
- Get Dried Fish
Notes on the Ofe Nsala (Nsala Soup) Ingredients. Catfish is the fish for Ofe Nsala. If you can't buy cat fish where you live, click here for a great alternative including other. Ofe Nsala - White Soup is a mouth watering delicacy peculiar to the Igbo tribe of Nigeria, especially the people of Anambra state.
Instructions to make Ofe Nsala w/ Chicken:
- In a clean pot, add chicken, pepper, crayfish, seasoning cubes, salt, uda, and ground Uziza seeds. Remember to add the amount of salt and seasoning that suit your taste.
- With a wooden spatula, mix ingredients thoroughly, add water to a but above the chicken, cover the pot and allow to cook till the chicken is almost completely cooked. Please, note that you may need to add more water for the chicken to cook properly.
- Add in chopped Uziza leaves and dried fish, stir, and allow to cook for 3 mins.
- Stir, then add pounded cocoyam, in small balls to the pot, stir again and allow to cook for 5 mins and your Ofe Nsala is ready. Please, note that the cocoyam is just a thickener. In the absence of cocoyam, you can use a bit of poundo powder or cocoyam powder, using a bit of water to make into a paste and add it to the pot, it will also thicken the dish. Ofe Nsala is supposed to be thick but also runny, that means you don't want the soup to be too thick that it becomes globby.
- After adding the thickener, if the soup is too thick, add some water until you get your desired consistency.
It is a very rich fresh fish Although Catfish and other types of fishes are traditionally used for Ofe Nsala, I find it tastier with hard/ old Chicken, Goat meat and even Smoked. Ofe-Nsala( white soup) Nigerian delicacy made with chicken and goat meat. Ofe nsala is a bit similar to the Efik soup called Afia Efere, but the extra condiments make it different from Nsala. In this article, however, we would be discussing how to cook Nsala Soup or White Soup as commonly called by Nigerians is a meal famous to the eastern tribe and riverine area of Nigeria. Ofe Nsala (Nsala Soup) is a delicious soup, popular in the eastern part of Nigeria.
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