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| Okra and foofoo |
Hello
NCC readers! Hope your weekend was fab! Another “Satiday foofoo post” In Sierra
Leone Saturday is foofoo day. Most households will make this dish to have for
lunch on Saturday and then on Sunday morning before heading to their church service. In
today’s post I opted for okra soup. Okra can be cooked with or without palm
oil, blended onions, scotch peppers, ogiri (fermented sesame seed paste)
assorted meat of your choice and smoked fish. For a foofoo dish, I prefer
without palm oil and I usually have the palm oil version with rice.
Foofoo
is made from cassava and is one of my favorite African dishes. It is made from
fermented cassava that is later on, cooked and molded into a dough-like
consistency ball.
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| Ingredients |
Ingredients
2 dozen fresh okra
1 packet of Foofoo
3 medium sized onions
3 scotch peppers or enough to your tolerance
1 packs of ogiri
Assorted meat (pig foot, oxtail, smoked broiler chicken)
Smoked fish
Maggie season
Salt
Cooking Instructions
Serving for 4
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| Chopped Okra |
Okra Soup
1.
Wash and chop okra into
small chunks and put aside.
2.
Bring your meats to boil
for about an hour or as soft as you want it to be.
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| Boiling pot with blended ogiri |
3.
Meanwhile blend onions and
scotch pepper with ogiri and dry shrimps. This should look like a thick paste.
4.
Add the above mixture to
the boiled meat and add 2 pints of water then leave the pot to boil for 30
minutes or until you have a thick soup consistency.
5.
Add 1 maggie cube seasoning
and two pinches of salt to taste.
6.
Add the Okra and let the
pot boil for about 10 minutes to allow the okra to cook. Leave the pot open
whilst it boils until the okra is cooked.
7.
Finally add smoked fish and
turn the heat low and let the pot cook for a further 5 minutes and the sauce is
ready for serving.
Foo Foo
1.
Add water
to foofoo paste and mix with hand into a thick runny consistency.
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| Sieving foofoo |
2.
Sieve the
foofoo to remove chaff.
3.
Leave
this to settle for about an hour or a day before if time permits
4.
Strain
off the surplus water and bring foo foo to cook on a low heat.
5.
Keep
mixing the foo foo until it thickens into a hard dough
6.
Add about
a handful of water to the pot. Cover and leave the dough to cook by steam.
Voila! Dish is done!
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| Finished dish |
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| Okra Soup |
