Ofe Owerri Recipe (Nigerian Cocoyam Vegetable Soup)

Ofe Owerri Recipe (Nigerian Cocoyam Vegetable Soup)

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Thicken a palm oil soup with cocoyam, load it with assorted meat, stockfish, dried fish and snails, and finish with ugu leaves. Owerri's prized Igbo soup.

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Cooking tools:

  • Pot
  • Stove
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
  • Airtight container

Ingredients

  • Assorted Fish, Dry fish, Stock fish, Assorted Meat, Beef, Snails, Cow skin (ponmo)
  • 10 Corms medium cocoyams
  • ½ Cup palm oil
  • ¼ Cup ground crayfish
  • Habanero pepper (to your taste)
  • 4 Small seasoning cubes
  • 1 Medium bunch ugu (Nigerian pumpkin leaves)
  • 1 Small bunch okazi (Afang leaves, Gnetum africanum)

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