Please, amaka, omoge or whoever, i need a full recipe on any soup that cocoyam is used to thicken it. I love igbo meals so well.

Is amaka still on this thread!!!

drrionelli:

@na wa:

1. Quantitatively, how much is a "big ball"? Do you mean a copious quantity of chopped or diced onion or two large whole onions?

one big ball of onion is approximately 20 naira. and you need two large whole onion.

drrionelli:

3., 6., 9. and 10. I live in the States, and am unfamiliar with this unit of measurement. How much is it in, say, grams or milligrams?

sorry bro, u see why we advise our bros, sist, and even foreigners to visit this great nation of ours at least ones a year? anyway, to answer your question, one dollar is equivalent to one hundred and thirty naira _{(not sure what the current exchange rate is)}

drrionelli:

4. What size Coca Cola bottle? 10 oz? 1 litre? 20 oz?

4give my blonder, i assumed everybody here is a nigerian. the answer to your question is: 35cl coca cola bottle

drrionelli:

6. What are "ogu leaves"?

it's a vegetable leave, used for cooking. when i find out the botanical name for it, i shall let you know.

drrionelli:

7. White sugar? Brown sugar?

sugar extracted from sugarcane

drrionelli:

9. What type of fish? Catfish? Cod? Trout? Halibut? Hake?

any will do. but catfish is more preferable.

drrionelli:

10. What is "kpomo"? Is this readily available in the states? If not, what is a good substitute?

"pkomo" is skin, cow skin.

drrionelli:

13. What is "isam"? Again, is the available in the US, and if not, what would one substitute in its place?

isam is a cone like "water snail" with a black and hard shell. _{(plz don't ask me what is water snail )}

drrionelli:

14. How much and what kind of "etc."?

a typical nigerian will understand it, when i say e.t.c. their are some ingredient that are necessary for cooking almost very dish, e.g. air freshener _{(sorry, i just can't explain it now)}

drrionelli:

Now, after one has gathered these ingredients, how is the dish prepared? (Also, is the "kerosine" you mention what I would know as "kerosene"? And, I assume that this would be used for the actual cooking of the soup?)

the kerosene? ya! is the one you know. it's a necessary ingredient you must add to the dish to complete the "Trojan Soup"

hope I've answered all your questions for further information please contact me at=> [email]topz@myway.com [/email]

una just dey make me under cephalic influences had which i can undergo gastric n intestinal omo e 4 no bad ooooooo.nice chow

Egusi Soup

added the egusi and spinach , *edited

15minutes later *edited

Omoge25!

Great job there and thanks for displaying those pics at last. .

omoge25 well done. funny thing i used to have a friend who hate egusi when it has that peculiar color of yellow. she said it looks like baby shyt. i once got mad at her and offered her egusi without any spinach or bitter leaf .
she left my room without eating .

@Omoge and OlowoTee: Thanks for the nice words.


Omoge my cousin hates egusi soup, myself i dont like it when its mixed with stew, and thats how her mom cooks it.

thats it! i am off to naija!

omoge25:

@Omoge and OlowoTee: Thanks for the nice words.

It's ma pleasure. Hungry for more lectures, lol. And where is PTH by the way!

I really hope it's well

seun ban our brother PTH since donkey years.

omoge:

seun ban our brother PTH since donkey years.

Ok

Dishes still rolling in huh? cool!!!!

omoge:

omoge25 well done. funny thing i used to have a friend who hate egusi when it has that peculiar color of yellow. she said it looks like baby shyt. i once got mad at her and offered her egusi without any spinach or bitter leaf .
she left my room without eating .

thatz crazy

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;Dnice topic love ya all but please help, i need to eat balance diet, i mean can anyone help me to mapout, a monday to sunday balance diet table(Morning,afternoon and night)african food only(rice,beans can be included), am tired of eating all this american junks, help

@Omoge


Chai send my own oh.Dt site doesnt work

Make una no let this thread die oh

this really is a great topic thank you amaka
now i might just learn something for my future husband

Great Topic

I am Brazilian dating with a Nigerian and he has been broken up with me just because I was not born there, so I ll dress nigerian clothes (I have already bought) also I ll make one of Amaka recipt, Egusi Soup and lets see what will happen ,

Thank God there are a plenty of nigerians living here ans is easy to find these ingredients.

Let me know if you people want some recipt from Brazil

Kisses
Simone

at least he was being honest with you Simone.

simibrazil:

Great Topic

I am Brazilian dating with a[b] Nigerian and he has been broken up with me just because I was not born there[/b], so I ll dress nigerian clothes (I have already bought) also I ll make one of Amaka recipt, Egusi Soup and lets see what will happen ,

Thank God there are a plenty of nigerians living here ans is easy to find these ingredients.

Let me know if you people want some recipt from Brazil

Kisses
Simone

I don't understand so he is upset that you werent born in nigeria?? or brazil? I mean you are trying; if he wanted some one from nigeria then he should have dated someone from there, its not your problem. Anyway good luck with the cooking, let us know how it goes.

I don't understand so he is upset that you werent born in nigeria?? or brazil? I mean you are trying; if he wanted some one from nigeria then he should have dated someone from there, its not your problem. Anyway good luck with the cooking, let us know how it goes.

I have been discussing about this my problem at Why Must Nigerians Abroad Marry Nigerians? https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-9127.96.html#bot
Take a look!

He always complain that i have never cooked any nigerian soup , I just found out this informations now, because we had brokened up I am trying to make something that is really important to him to save this relationship. I always try , I cant loose but at least I tryed

He told me he must get married from nigerian because he is the oldest son , culture issue otherwise the whole family might "die", etc, He has been living in Brazil and the families have been making the arragement (it is crazy to me and my friends) so he even dont know her and he told me one day she ll come and you ll be her first friend, hahaha, he think I am civilizaded like you, so I prefer broken up because I dont want still around when it happen. The house he lives, we bought everything togheter, I choise and made my decoration, all details is my taste and now someone is coming with everything read to take my place ?is very sad . I am scorpion and I am very jeaulous.

Amaka you are too much, i love that fried rice
hope to cook it one day.

Recipe
Cotton seeds soup. a.k.a. koro owu soup

Ingredients
cotton seeds (remove shaft)
Onions
peppers
Tomatoes
Palm oil
Maggi
Salt
Meat
Fish
Spice leaves (efiri-one with big leaves)

Prep.

1-use a small tray to blow the cotton seeds- to remove dirt
2-Wash the cotton seeds
3-wash the onions, peppers and tomatoes
4 -Add 2 and 3 together in a bowl, and Grind them together preferrably using a grinding machine
6- Pour the grinded stuff into a pot, put on fire, then add all the ingredients-maggi, salt, oil, washed fish & meat excluding the leaves.
7. Cook for some minutes.
8. After say about 20-30minutes, add the leaves (preferably do not slice the leaves)
Add enough water(since the soup is always thick).

Serve with any solid food- gari(eba),fufu etc
Also goes with rice

Strange recipe

that is my Town's best soup.

blessed mary!! i love cotton seed soup sooooooooo much!!! tasted it and sooooo delicious. i licked all my fingers
some pple call it ukporun, not too sure of the spelling.

hello all,
one quick question,
What's efirin (ntong) - the spicy leaf for pepper soup called in d UK?
I've run out n need 2 buy ASAP.

Thanks.

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blessed mary!! i love cotton seed soup sooooooooo much!!! tasted it and sooooo delicious. i licked all my fingers
some people call it ukporun, not too sure of the spelling.
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so you know that soup? it is my favourite. quite delicious

yes ooo very very VERY delicious!!! eaten with pyam eh, oooooooooo la la la la it's one great soup out of Edo

Does anyone out there have a recipe for "draw soup" and igbo dish?

I am aware this topic is about Nigerian Recipt but I d like to share some recips with you.

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Ingredients :

1 large squash (we prefer a buttercup squash)

2 tablespoon margarine

1 large onion, grated

3 cups tomato puree

2 cubes beef bouillon.

2 lb cooked shrimps

salt

3 tablespoon cornstarch

1 can of table cream (or 1pint of dairy cream)

4 tablespoon chopped parsley

1 bar cream cheese (8 oz) or farmer cheese.


How to Prepare :

1- Preheat oven to 350°F.
2-Cut a large hole on the top of squash.
3-Remove seeds and fiber, cleaning thoroughly inside.
4-Place cut side down in a ceramic casserole pan with a small amount of water in bottom
Bake for about 45 to 50 minutes, or until squash is tender and can be pierced with a fork.
Meanwhile, dissolve the corn starch in a cup half filled with tomato puree
Heat the margarine in a large saucepan, combine the grated onion, beef bouillon. Fry the onion and add the tomato puree, previously dissolved cornstarch and thaw shrimps. Bring the mixture to boil and cook for 7 minutes. Add salt to taste.
Take the saucepan out of the heat, stir in the table cream, and set aside.
Carefully remove the baked squash from the oven turn the squash hole up and remove any excess o water remaining in the casserole.
Fill in the hole with half of the cream cheese, fill in the shrimps and place the remaining cheese on the top.

You can re-heat or microwave to serve.
While serving, scrape internally so that you can serve some squash flesh with the shrimp sauce.

PS:This is a traditional recipe from northeast of Brazil. The final dish looks appealing on your table.