Hi Hiveians. This planet (Hive) seem deserted, where has everyone been? Oh! Party things, I presume. Weddings, housewarming, birthday parties etc. Anyways, it's another explosive episode of the blogging challenge from yours truly. My ten favorite food. Please, before you begin to read or see the food, let me take this space to announce to you that I am a local breed and I have flair for local dishes. I find local food spices, original from the right sauce. So, lets get to see what I have for you all, you could learn some recipe here, you never can tell.
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Oha Soup with Fufu.
The meal is the special delicacy of the people of Owerri. It is prepare with a local leaf and assorted ingredients ranging from dried fish, stock fish, cow hide (pómó), goat meat or cow foot, to chilli pepper, salt, pounded crayfish, palm oil and pounded cocoyam to firmness. I am already salivating. That's my best soup ever.
Pounded Yam with White Soup.
During special occasions, especially at night, the soup helps to clean your trachea and allows you breath to run smoothly. Yes! Ordinary soup. When cooking this soup, palm oil is not added. Dried fish and assorted parts of goat or cow meat is used. There are other local spices that are added: black pepper, alligator pepper, udder, scent leaf (not a must).
Nkwobi
Here, goat head or cow tail after it has been bisected would be cooked only with salt. Then, a sauce of potash with red oil is prepared with crayfish. It is then mixed with the meat and served, with a local leaf that cures stomach aches or rumbling. The leaf is called Utazi ( I wouldn't know the scientific name)
Ikókóré- Water Yam porridge
Having lived among the Yoruba people, the Ijebu in particular, I have come to cherish this food so very much. It is made from grated water yam. You have to put water in a large pot to boil, add all ingredients like dried fish pepper, salt and periwinkle with shell ( that's my invention though 😂🤣). Leave to steam before cutting you grated water yam in small cuts into the already boiled sauce. When it is served, it could be a finger licking delicacy.
Roasted Yam with Oil Bean (Ugba)
Yam is popular and need no introduction here. Ugba is made from mature oil bean seeds. After slicing into tiny pieces. It prepared in potash oil then cooked chunks of sliced meat, crayfish, cow hide and the herbal Utazi lead is added. Chai!!! I think I need to invest in local meals restaurant. It will make sense, don't you think?
Garri (cassava powder) and Groundnut
After a hot afternoon work, to retire for a nap, I take garri with chilled water and groundnut, sometimes with sugar. There no limit to wish you can go with this one. You may decide to use fried fish instead of ground nuts. Some guys don't even trust sugar, that add salt. There is one kind of a dried fish that fits here. It is called Shawa, my Nigerian folks already know how that looks.
Bean Puddy with pap
On Saturday mornings, after a workout, I love to come back home to this one. Light food. I am not a fan of tea and bread, so don't go there. Tea makes me weak. The so-called bean puffy is popularly known as Moi-moi in Nigeria. It is a common meal around here though.
Concoction Rice Here, there is no respect for ingredients. From crayfish to onions to palm oil, to dried fish and red pepper, everything goes into the rice. This meal is famous in 90% homes of Nigerian. It easy to cook and fast too. Basically, students in higher institutions of learning to do joke with this. I know some of them are on Hive. Of the Greatest Nigerian Students!!!
Unripe Plantain Pepper Soup with Freshwater Fish
Many people may not like this and probably you can't find this in restaurants. Unripe plantain too is not usually liked. But the good news is that it is give the body iron. Many people will rather suggest ripe plantain. This meal is however cooked once in a Blue Moon. Freshwater fish like tilapia, catfish, and so on will serve well here. Usually served at night.
Grilled Fish with Fried Plantain
Crocker fish is the best for the meal. When we visit the beach at leisure times, the is what is best to serve. Perhaps to done feel like doing plantain, potatoes will not be a bad idea. I'd also suggest you don't use the oven in preparing the fish, a griller will suit this case.
Without much ado, you'd have seen that I am a foodie. But nonetheless, I just love to eat what I think will benefit system. You can join the train too, #foodgang.