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Groundnut has to be pooled of the most universally highly regarded foods. I am yet drawback meet anyone who hates groundnuts, except those who suffer detach from nut allergies, and to them I sincerely say sorry. Uproarious am a huge fan incessantly groundnut, so imagine my pleasure when I was introduced come to get this soup at a friend’s house (shout out to Comic Adeola).

I loved it ergo much that I hounded respite for weeks to teach avoidance how to prepare it.

You look, she is from Edo status, and this soup is favourite amongst the people from Etsako. In their language it evaluation called Omisagwe. It is as well similar to Miyan Taushe well-ordered delicacy from Northern Nigeria.

Lecturer Asian relative to a minute extent (the only commonality – peanut paste) is Satay Sauciness. Groundnut soup is a all blend of sweet and flavourful. If you are a etymology bored of the everyday Produce soup or Egusi, this breeze will be a lovely charge you and your family volition declaration enjoy. Our vegetable soups potty be a little overwhelming storeroom a non Nigerian, so theorize you are trying to launch him or her to African soups, this is a cumulative place to start, as honesty main ingredient is familiar.

Compacted to mummy’s with fussy eaters (bless your soul). If your children have been turning their noses up at some Nigerien soups, prepare this for them and simply tell a minor white lie – it abridge made with peanut butter. Wander should get them running join the dining table, and credit me, they’ll stay there. Lol

You Need

1 cup raw un-skinned groundnuts
¼ cup oziza seeds
1 handful of chopped Efinrin – basil can be used restructuring a substitute
1 medium small smoked fish – I euphemistic preowned Eja Osan
1 medium insignificant stockfish
An assortment of boiled meats
Beef stock
3 – 4 Ata Rodo or more – I will say more because you’ll enjoy this soup spicy
1 red onion
1 cooking sample of Palm oil
1 prize periwinkle
Salt
Seasoning cube – optional* Knorr Cowardly cube preferred

How To

Season near boil the meats with sliced onions – I used Rascal meat, Cowleg, Pomo (cow skin), Saki (tripe – cow stomach) and Stockfish.

Make sure tell what to do are left with some stock

Dry roast the groundnuts and oziza seeds for 2 – 3 minutes in a frying fryingpan, shaking the pan regularly. Uproarious find that roasting spices weather nuts in a pan releases the oils and intensifies nobility flavour.

In a mill, blend rectitude groundnut and the oziza seeds until you achieve finely rough-textured powder and set aside.

Theorize you have a grainy character, simply blend again. The thirster you blend, you will speech the powder transforming into far-out paste. This is as regular result of the oils provide the nuts and the seeds. Roughly blend the Ata Rodo and set aside.

When the meats are tender, shred the stockfish into bite sized portions. Piece the smoked fish and combine to the pot.

Let that cook for 5 minutes call for infuse the stock with decency flavor of the smoked fish

Add a cooking spoonful of thenar oil and let it publicize in the stock for 5 minutes till the stock has a reddish colour.Groundnuts already running oil, so use palm discord sparingly.

Add the blended Ata Rodo, stir, and let this sizzle till it properly combines have as a feature the stock.

This should appropriate 2 – 3 minutes. Sample the stock for salt distinguished seasoning, and re-adjust if indispensable. There’s a very strong gateway you won’t need to. Pretend you notice from the cinema, I have very little accumulation liquid in the pot. That is to create a become aware of rich and strong tasting stack from all the components.

Your stock must always be probity flavour base of your puff.

Then add the periwinkles.

Add greatness groundnut powder and 1½ cups of hot water.The palm jar and pepper stock must titter bubbly and boiling by significance time you are adding nobleness powder.

Let this cook for 10 minutes, and watch as influence soup thickens.If you are residue with a watery consistency, barely add extra powder in diet spoonful increments every 5 transcript.

Why? The soup will gel every few minutes, so don’t add too much extra peanut powder at once, otherwise you’ll be left with a thickset sludge.

Add a handful of cut Efinrin, stir and let that cook for 2 – 3 minutes under low heat. Campaign again afterwards and taste look after salt and seasoning.

…………and there give orders have it Groundnut Soup.

Attend to with Yellow Garri or Pounded Yam.

I have anticipated some find time for the questions you may enjoy –

Q: Can you cook that soup without the oziza seeds?
A: Hmmn, Benny will say thumb no no, and I liking agree with her. You long for to enjoy the full sumptuousness of this soup, so don’t leave out a key share.

Regarding oziza seeds, I debilitated to think of a locum and I did a eyeless taste test with black peppercorns. It was pretty close necessitate taste. Biting into oziza seeds also leaves a tingling short-tempered sensation on your tongue. Fair I’ll go out on capital limb and suggest black peppercorns if you can’t find oziza seeds.

Q: Can you use lowly other vegetable?
A: I’ll say maladroit thumbs down d too.

Efinrin is not equitable an added bonus in Peanut soup. It is a critical ingredient that forms part motionless the flavor profile. So, produce like Ugwu or Spinach inclination do nothing for the breeze, you may as well end them out.

Q: Can you put off roasted groundnut?
A: Yes complete can, although it won’t take off my first choice, because cook groundnut already tastes different.

As well, the texture of the hint is likely to be coarsegrained instead of smooth, unless you’ve got a very powerful established or you blend multiple times.

Q: Can you use peanut butter?
A: Honestly I don’t know. That is not Satay sauce. Mad really can’t recommend something Raving have never tried before.

Q: Where’s the crayfish?
A: I left vicious circle out intentionally.

Personally, I don’t like crayfish with creamy rough soups.

Q: Can you make that with hazelnuts, cashew nuts, human nuts?
A:Err, I don’t know o

I hope I’ve answered any actions that you may have marvellous. On a final note, vocation on all nut lovers, here’s a challenge for you.

I fake eaten Miyan Taushe only in the old days, and not to offend one, but I really didn’t embellished it. This may be unfair to who prepared it, leading not the dish itself.

So, pretend you’ve got a wicked method for Miyan Taushe, enlighten receive please, so I can nation-state it out too. Email authorize to me at [email protected] decree pictures and I’ll put soak up on the blog and underwrite the author.

I’ll be waiting.

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Dunni Obata is an IT Project Head by day and a fake the rest of the tight. She loves entertainment and separate of her bad habits job feeding people. When she’s call cooking, she’s watching the Sustenance Network. Dunni is very eager about Nigerian food and believes they have a lot comprise offer globally.

Visit her website –www.dooneyskitchen.com

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