The Nsala soup is popularly known to be one of the richest soup from the people of southeast Nigeria and here are the simple ingredients and methods use in prepare the soup below..
Ingredients:
Live chicken
1 medium size smoked Fish
Dried Pepper ( Cameroun type preferable)
1 teaspoon Uziza seeds (ground)
2 pieces Uda (crushed)
1 tablespoon crayfish (ground)
Few slices Uziza leaves (as herb)
1-2 table spoons yam flour or 2 palm size flattened pounded yam (to thicken soup)
Water ( enough to serve 4 people’s soup)
Seasoning to taste
Salt to taste
Cooking directions:
-Wash, season, steam chicken with pepper and salt. -Add pieces of yam and cook; Take out when cooked and pound for the thickener.
-Wash fish, add to pot with the spices and crayfish when chicken is almost cooked. Check the seasoning and pepper at this point.
-Add more water to the the pot, bring to boil, add the pounded yam and cook till the soup thickens to the desired consistency
Note: If you are using yam flour, dissolve in cold water into a paste and stir quickly into the soup water; Stir well to prevent the paste forming a big lump in the pot. Then leave to boil until the soup thickens.
-Lastly add the sliced Uziza leaves. Cook for 2-3 minutes and soup is ready.
-Serve with confirm pounded yam, fufu