White Soup-Nsala Soup(Igbo)

Todays Recipe: White soup, Nsala (igbo's) soup or Afiefere (cross rivers)

Today we are cooking a soup called white soup from my mums place in cross rivers its called Afiefere and the Igbo's call it Nsala soup. quite easy to prepare and its spicy good for cold weather and also for anyone down with flu. 


Ingredients:

• catfish
• stock fish
• hot leaves (oziza)
• 1 handful crayfish
• 1 Bulb of onions
• Thickener (raw white yam,yam flour, flour)
• yellow pepper or habanero pepper or the cameron pepper
• ponmo
• periwinkles (essam) already
• dried fish if desired
• maggi and salt to taste.

How to prepare White soup:

Wash the catfish properly with hot water, place it in separate bowl, wash the stock fish, ponmo and dried fish, put it in a pot, and add  Maggi, onion and salt and boil for 15minutes, also add the yam if you are using a raw white yam,once the yam is soft put it in mortar and pound it till its whole and add to the boiling stock fish,dried fish and pony. But for yam flour(poundo yam flour), boil the amount of water of water you want put the yam flour in a bowl and mix it till its whole and then add to the boiling stock fish,dried fish and ponmo, add the catfish and the blended pepper and crayfish. reason you don't cook the catfish with theponmo and stockfish at the beginning is because it might get too soft. Allow all to cook together for 5-7 minutes then add desired amount of maggi of your choice and add the periwinkle and the hot leaves (oziza) leaves and allow to cook for another 10 seconds, add salt to taste and Tada! our White soup is ready.

Can be served with Eba (Garri), pound or pounded yam, fufu etc...

*ingredients

*on the left is the ponmo, stock fish and dried fish being boiled. and on the right is when the meat has boiled i added the thickener and the blended pepper and crayfish

*this is when the catfish goes in.

* this is when i added the oziza leaves and the last picture is the white soup ready to be eaten.