Sunday, 25 January 2015

Okra Soup “Wait Okra and FooFoo"

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.

Hope you get to try this dish. Aprons on!



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

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.
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.
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!  

Finished dish


Okra Soup



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