So a few weeks ago, a lady called me as usual to order for seafood. She asked what kinds of seafood I had and I gave her my list including prawns, calamari, lobsters et al. The only problem was that she didn't quite know what exactly she could make with this, and I believe a lot of Nigerians have this same challenge.

We love seafood, yes, but oya what do we cook it withor how do we even make? In fact, beyond prawns, people don't even know what to use other seafood like calamari and lobsters for. In that light I will be sharing 7 of my favorite seafood delicacies and their recipes. Stay glued and please share yours too.

Meanwhile don't forget to call me or send me a whatsapp chat via 09091772274 if you need seafood

Let's start with the most popular - Seafood Okra

Stewed Seafood Okra recipe is basically a Nigerian Okra soup dish. It is a fusion of Okra, Seafood and spicy pepper sauce. You will love love this meal, trust me!

I'll share steps below

Ingredients

-30-40 pieces of Okra

-1 big piece Fish of your choice( I’m using Tilapia)

-6-8 Crab Claws or 4 Medium Crabs

-3 Cups Mixed Seafood

-1 Cooking Spoon Palm Oil

-2-3 Cups Meat/Seafood Stock (Seafood stock ideally but we can break the rule on this occasion) <

-1 Red Bell Pepper ( Tatashe)

-3 Scotch Bonnet (Atarodo)

-1 Big Onion

-2-3 pieces Stockfish

-3 Heaped Tablespoons Ground Crayfish

-2 Tablespoon Locust Beans (Iru)

-1 Maggi Crayfish or other Bouillon Cube of your choice

-Soup Seasoning of your choice ( I’m using Aromat seasoning)

-1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder

-Salt to taste

Preparation:

Firstly, properly scrub and clean the crab claws if you’re using any as the shells harbour all sorts of dirt. I scrubbed mine with a little kitchen brush. also, remember to devien your prawns and clean them up. Then, marinate all the seafood and fish. To marinate the crab claws, crack the shells in one of two places, this is so the marinade can penetrate into the meat…
Then mix some seasoning with salt and garlic powder, rub the seafood with this and chuck in the fridge overnight. Do the same with the fish but mix with a little bit of olive oil as well, and toss in the fridge overnight… This is quite necessary if you’re cooking Tilapia, Tilapia is quite a bland and almost naturally tasteless.

cook, blend the Tatashe, 2 Rodo and 1/2 of the Onion till smooth and set aside.

Wash the Okra thoroughly, blend or grate 1/4 of the Okra roughly and chop the rest a bit chunky (Blend the entire Okra roughly if you don’t fancy chewy Okra soup) also chop 1 Atarodo and set aside…

Get a big size pot, set on a hob on medium heat, add the chopped onions, sauté till fragrant. Then add the locust beans and 1 tablespoon crayfish, sauté for a minute

Next, add the blended pepper, Maggi crayfish and fry for 10-12 minutes…

Get another pot, add 3 cups of water, chopped onions, add salt, garlic powder and your other seasoning, bring to a rolling boil , throw in the Stockfish and cook for 5 minutes or until the Stockfish become slightly tender, by then it would have released some flavour into the stock. Taste your stock as it needs to be well seasoned, if you haven’t got chicken or beef stock available, you’ll be using the stock later.

Nothing beats the flavour of stockfish in soups…

When it’s tender, add the crab claws and cook for 7 minutes. After 7 minutes, add the rest of the seafood and crayfish, cook for 5 minutes.

boiling here, I took the pot off the heat to take the photo as the steam was interfering with the picture quality…
After 3 minutes, pour the cooked seafood into a colander and set the stock aside.

When the pepper has fried and oil has settled on the top as pictured below:

You like?

Speak2klein:
You like?

sure I do,but I no sabi cook

Speak2klein:
You like?

Oga you loss your phone?

Nice one

Do you guys know Ukang?

Speak2klein:
Do you guys know Ukang?

I don't know Ukang

It's an Oron dish. Oron is a tribe in Akwa Ibom State. It is made as scent leaf stew.

DO you have a seafood recipe, please share.. I need to do some food discovery

Nice

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Achievers Seafood

We deal with all kind of oven dried fish, wholesale and retail.

Asa Fish
Sea white catfish
Pond catfish
Kpala fish
Snail
Ogbono
Crayfish
Powder crafish
Prawn
Powder prawn
Iru
Egusi seed
Red chillin pepper
Pepper soup spice
Palm oil


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