OFE NSALA...

Credit for this post actually goes to my mother, she cooked it, not me and it has got to be one of the easiest Nigerian soups to cook as well as the healthiest because you can use absolutely no oil and it'll still turn out great. for this however i used 2 tablespoons of palm oil. Also perfect fo this "weather for 2" we find ourselves in now.

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2Kg Mix of Goat Meat and Beef

500Grms Stock Fish

2 Smoked Catfish

Cocoyam Paste or Ground Ofor (for thickening the soup)

1 Tablespoon Ground Uziza Seed

1 Teaspoon Ground Uda

1 Onion

Ground Crayfish

2 Tablespoons Palm Oil

1 or 2 Tablespoons Cup Chopped Utazi Leaf 

3 Seasoning Cubes

Salt & Pepper

Wash and cook your meats and stockfish together seasoned with salt, pepper, 2 seasoning cubes and chopped onions.

When the meat is tender, add smoked fish, crayfish, uda, uziza and allow to boil together. The uda and uziza seeds will give it a hot spicy taste so easy on your pepper. Gradually add either cocoyam paste or ofor little by little (we used ofor) bearing in mind that you still want the soup to be light because these thickeners continue to thicken the soup even after its been taken off the heat and ofe nsala is meant to be light, just a tad thicker than peppersoup.

Add palm oil and uziza leaf and taste for seasoning. Please don't overdo the uziza leaf of you'll end up with a bitter inedible soup.

Thats all! Serve with pounded yam.

Food, glorious food!