Betterlife Learn with steem | How To Prepare Native Soup ( mininmri )

Hello steemians, Welcome to my blog today, actually, i am new steemian that just joined yesterday and i am very happy to write my first better life with steem post. On this article i will teach you guys how to prepare native soup. Read below to learn from me.

Preparation of native Soup

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Native Soup is one of our favourite soup, it called Native because it was prepared using ofor thats helps the soup to be thicken. Check the ingredients that i used and how i prepared the meal.

Ingredients

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• Palm oil
• 2 cups of Egusi: melon seed
• Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leave
• Onion
• Stockfish
• Dried fish
• Fresh pepper
• Chicken
• Periwinkle
• Ofor
• Maggi
• Salt
• Crayfish

^{general image of the food items}

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Preparation

After cutting the periwinkle, I properly rinse the Periwinkles in water and with the addition of salt . This is to ensure that sand, mud and other specks of dirt are washed off.

Image of me while i was cutting the periwinkle

Another image while i was washing

Wash your stock fish and meat(chicken) properly, put them in your cooking pot, slice your onion. add the sliced onion, a bit of salt, small amount of pepper and seasoning(maggi) to it so it can be tasty and place on a stove for heating.

A snapshot of me while i was washing the meat.

After washing the meat

Pound the pepper and crayfish together with the help of mortal and pestle. Pluck, wash and slice the vegetables properly, and ensure there is no sand in the vegetable.

^{Image of the sliced pumpkin leaf}

While boiling the chicken alongside stock fish, add the palm oil into the cooking pot so it can boil.. Add the dried fish.

Add the grind fresh pepper and crayfish for 10 minutes. I added small amount of ofor to thicken the soup. Allow for at least 10 minutes.

Then I added the grind egusi, turned it and Allowed to boil for at least 10 minutes. I added the periwinkle and allow to boil for 2 minutes.

^{After adding the egusi (melon seed) i turned it and waited for 10minutes for it to circulate.}

Add the sliced vegetables and allow to boil for at least 3 minutes. Taste to access the salt content if not enough add more till you get your desired taste.

^{After adding the pumpkin leaf i waited for about 3minutes before i concluded the cooking}

Now your Native soup is ready to eat. Hope you've learnt how to cook native soup from this article, i know very well that most Nigerians here can prepare it.

Thanks to @bright-obias for introducing me this platform and for his guidance and i also Thank you very much for reading through to the end.