How to prepare a local delicious Meal:Ikpa nkwukwo

From my personal experience, I have come to realize that your life style controls your look, if you want to appear health, you must eat healthy food and Eating a healthy food must be a life style, then you will appear healthy, yesterday I made a post on food that look delicious yet they are deadly, I pointed out what diet is and why it is important for us to it daily, in this post I want to share a healthy meal with you and it is our local food, the name is Ikpa nkwukwo.
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Ingredients	Price NGN	steem
Palm oil	600	4 steem
Meat	1,500	10s steem
Wateryam	1,000	15 steem
Periwinkle	150	1 steem
Ibath fish	600	4 steem
Fresh pepper	150	1 steem
Cocoyam leaf	200	1.500 steem
Maggie/salt	100	0.700 steem
Crayfish	300	2 steem
Total	4,600	30.600 steem

You can spend more than what I spend or less depending on how rich or quantity of the food you are cooking,

Ikpa nkwukwo is not a meal one person will prepare in a family because it takes a lot of time to prepare it so my Son and his friend helped me in preparing all the ingredients before I cooked it.

Steep1: peel the wateryam, wash is very well and cut it in a way that you can hold it and grind it, while you are grinding it, tell your friend to wash meat and cook.

Here I bought Goat meat so I cut it to the size I want and then wash it very well, seasoned it and cook it with small water,this second picture is showing you that the meat is done looking so delicious and it really really delicious.

The next step is to prepare the crayfish and onions, after cutting it like this I now pownd it or grind it with small greater.

I now washed the periwinkle and cut of the tail so that it will be easy to remove when you cook it, prepare your fish at the same time, cook it together with the periwinkle to be ready like the meat, one thing with this food that I am cooking is that it doesn't need much steps while cooking, the whole step is mainly on preparation.

I will not forget to blend my pepper because if there is no pepper in food, it affects the taste of the food

After grinding the wateryam, the next work is to Wash your pot bring it closer, wash the cocoyam leaf very well because it is time to mold it small small, it is the leaf of that cocoyam that you will use to mold the wateryam, another big work, as you are molding it you are putting it inside the pot at once, when you finish molding it, it is as good as you have finish cooking.

You can see my son here helping me in the kitchen , if you prepare this food alone, you will know that good and quality food require time

The food is ready as you can see in this picture so let me now tell you how to cook it to be delicious as you have seen in this picture, the steps to cook it is so simple than the preparation, you know I told you earlier that once you finish preparation food is done, let's go

Steps on how to cook Ikpa nkwukwo

Remember that steps of each meal differ from another person own what matters is that at the end we have delicious and healthy food so my steps goes this way

Step 1

Put the pot that you had put the molded Ikpa inside on the fire, add the water of the meat and the fish and check if it is enough to cook it if not add water to your taste, add pepper, maggie, crayfish and onions, salt in it and check the taste of it, if it is okay then allow to boil for some minutes and check if it is almost done, then add the fish and the meat that had cooked.

Step 2 and the last step

Add the palm oil, in some cases it will finish the 600 NGN oil or it will remain small, then stir it and check the taste and the color, as for my own it came out this way👇

_{so delicious and yummy yummy}

I am inviting all steemiains to come and enjoy Ikpa nkwukwo, to some it is a new food to some they already know the food, the truth is that it is rich and healthy.

Special thanks to @cryptogeko

I invite @chichieze, @lazbless to come and participating