Cookery- Catfish Pepper Soup

You beauties are in for a cookery treat this week because I joined forces with my lovely mum to prepare the most delicious cat fish pepper soup you could possibly ever taste. Honestly to me, my mum is the best cook in the world!! :)

And I actually LOVE cooking too, in fact I once considering doing so full-time and professionally. Anyways enough about me, back to the matter.

Ingredients

Meat (Chicken, Goat meat, beef, etc- It's entirely up to you)
Catfish- The more the merrier- About 2 large catfish usually should be enough :)
Seasoning (Maggi cubes, Knoor)
2 large red bell peppers
2 Large scotch bonnet peppers
Onu uzuza leaves (one handful- this is the Igbo name for it. If you don't have a clue what that is please take it written down to your local African shop)
Utazi leaves (one handful)
Ogili (1spoon full- also ask your African shop)
Crayfish (handful)
Dried fish
Coco yam flour (3 table spoons)


Boil chicken or meat and add seasoning, slice in one scotch bonnet (do not add any onions). Add a cup of water once the chicken begins to sizzle.

Boiled Chicken

Leave the meat to boil or around 35 minutes stirring occasionally. Make sure the cooking heat is not too high. After that time add roughly 500ml of boiling water to the meet and allow it to simmer for 5 minutes.

Wash and clean the catfish and place to one side.

Cat fish

Also wash the dried fish and remove all the bones before adding it to the boiling meat.

Dried fish

Put your washed Utazi and Onu uzuza leaves into a blender with the scotch bonnet and the 2 cleaned and washed red bell peppers.

Red bell peppers, Scotch bonnet pepper and Seasoning

Utazi and Onu uzuza

Crayfish

Ogili

Mixtures and leaves-Ready to blend

Also add the spoon of Ogli, the washed crayfish and one cup of water and blend till the mixture looks like what is pictured.

Blended mixture

Add the blended mixture to the boiling meat and turn in, then leave it for 10 minutes. At this point you may choose to add a little more seasoning. taste it first. If adding seasoning a maggi cube and Knoor cube should be sufficient- everyone's taste is different.

Appearance once the mixture is added to the meat.

The soup is now coming together

Add washed catfish into the soup and leave the delicious smelling soup to sizzle for about 15 to 20 minutes to allow the fish to cook.

Catfish added

The soup is now nearly ready but as it is being served with pounded yam it will need to be thickened.

Use a large spoon to remove the catfish and place in a separate plate as you add the cocoyam flour to the soup. Make sure you dissolve the yam flour well with a little warm water before adding it to the soup to avoid any lumps.

Stir in and leave to cook for about 10 minutes before returning the catfish to the soup. Leave for another 5 minutes and prepare for your taste buds to literally explode!

The completed Catfish Pepper Soup

Serve with Pounded Yam :)

You are now ready to impress anyone in the world with this delicious soup!