Nigerians are food lovers. Blessed with a lot of local dishes that can only be best prepared with the indigenous ingredients. Nkwobi is a local dish indigenous to the easterners in Nigeria.
Here are the ingredients that are used in making Nigerian nkwobi (for five to ten persons.)
2 kg Meat (cowfoot)
2 cubes of knorr
Utazi leaves – a handfull
Edible potash (one teaspoon)
Palm oil (half cup) 125ml
Ugba – 1 cup
Onions – 2 slice
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions for making Nkwobi
- Wash and put the cow foot chunks in a pot.
- Add the stock cubes (crushed) and the chunks of onion.
- Add a small quantity of water and start cooking at medium heat till well cooked. Add just enough water to prevent burning as you cook. There should not be any stock (water) in the pot when the meat is done.
- While the meat is cooking, pour the palm oil into a clean dry pot.
- Pour in the potash mixture (sieved) into the oil.
- Stir with a wooden spatula as you pour the potash. You'll notice the palm oil begin to curdle and turn yellow.
- Keep stirring till all the oil has turned yellow.
- Add the ground crayfish, pepper and ehu seeds. Stir very well till they are all incorporated.
- When the meat is done, add salt, stir and cook till all the water has dried.
- Add the well done cow foot to the palm oil paste and stir very well with the wooden spatula.
- Put it back on the stove/cooker and heat till the Nkwobi is piping hot, stirring all the time to make sure it does not burn.
- To prepare the garnish, cut the onions into rings and cut the utazi into long thin slices.
- Serve the Nkwobi in a wooden mortar as shown in the image above.
- Add the thin slices of utazi and onion rings on top for the full effects.
