HWC Contest #66|| Food Diary Game - Week - 11 by @missyleo [6/07/2024]

Designed with photo collage and canvas

Good morning my dearly beloved steemians across the globe, happy sunday to you all, I trust you all slept well, mine was peaceful cuz I slept like a baby. I am excited to be here and also to participate in this very contest been organized by our dear admin @jyoti-thelight on the theme: Food Dairy Game

In my post this morning I will be showing you how I prepared my edikang ikong soup (Vegetable soup), the step by step process of making it and all the ingredients I used, please sit tight and read to the end, thanks.

Food items I got from the market

So below are the ingredients for my soup:

• Meat

• Cow skin

• Pumpkin (vegetable leaves)

• Water leaves

• Periwinkle (shell)

• Pepper

• Salt

• Stick cube (maggi)

• Red oil

• Crayfish

•Onions

• Dry fish

Washed the meat and the cow skin put into the cooking pot, I added salt, pepper, Maggi and onions stir it and cooked for about 15 minutes for it to get soft. When it was done I added my washed dried fish, stir it all together and allowed it to steam for 3minutes again.

My steam meat, cow skin and dried fish

While my meat was on fire, I used that chance to slice the pumpkin leaves into very tiny piece and the water leaves too and set it aside. I also pounded the crayfish, fresh pepper and washed the periwinkle and set them aside too.

After slicing the pumpkin leaves into tiny piece, I squeezed out the water from it and make sure it's well dried, did same with the water leaves. This is the process and the reason why it's been called "Edikang ikong" because it has to be dried.

The sliced water leaves, pumpkin leaves, periwinkle, crayfish and pepper

While steaming the meat I didn't used any water, it was the water from the meat that helped steam the meat well and as the water was getting dried I put the sliced water leaves into the pot, added the periwinkle and red oil too, stir it very well and allowed it to simmer for about 2 -3 minutes.

Then I added the sliced pumpkin leaves and pounded crayfish, stir it very well, covered the pot and allowed it to simmer for about 2 -3minutes.