How to prepare delicious Okazi soup

Okazi soup is a thickened vegetable soup from Owerri (eastern Nigeria). It is similar to Ofe Owerri, but with some slight differences.

Ingredients:

  • 1 handful of chopped uziza or ugu leaves
  • 1 cup shelled periwinkle (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon achi or ofo powder
  • 1 wrap of ogiri isi
  • 1 tablespoon of ground crayfish
  • 2 cooking spoons palm oil
  • Seasoning and salt
  • 10 medium pieces of assorted meat
  • 1 medium stockfish 
  • 3 medium dried or smoked fish
  • 3 medium pomo
  • 2 Cameroon peppers
  • 3 handfuls sliced okazi (afang leaves)

Preparation:

  • Pound the okazi leaves.
  • Rinse the meat, add spices and cook with the stockfish until tender.
  • Add pomo, dried/smoked fish and more water; cook for 10 minutes.
  • Add the peppers, palm oil, crayfish, and ogiri, seasoning and salt, to taste.
  • Cook for 10 minutes.
  • Add the achi or ofo and keep stirring for 2 minutes, to get a consistency similar to Ofe Nsala (you can add a little water if it is too thick).
  • Add the okazi and uziza leaves.
  • Cook for 2 minutes and it will be ready.

You can enjoy it with any swallow of your choice

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