Boiled Rice with white soup ( afia efere) chicken and Fish. This is my Boiled White Rice, mixed with Carrot cubes and eaten with Soup.Having eaten so much of Rice with Stew (Tomato Sauce), I am now coming up with other types of Sauces and Soups that can aid my enjoyment of rice. I am a Rice Eater, I love rice with good stew.
This Picture too is not very clear and I am still trying to figure out why. For now can you just make do diary? The taste is in the eating you know. It is not in the look.
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 cups rice boiled with some salt
- A slice of boiled yam to thicken
- 1 cat fish
- 1 kg beef
- Soya Oil
- Seasoning cubes
- Hot leaf (Uziza)
- 1 small red onion to steam the beef
- 1 teaspoon ground fresh Pepper (Atarodo)
- Salt to taste
- Water
Cooking steps: Boiled Rice with white soup ( afia efere), chicken and Fish
Firstly, I cooked the white soup. (it is not actually white in colour, but just a name because it can be cooked without palm oil.
I add a little drop of oil for some colour, and, so that a very delicious pot of soup doesn’t end up looking like a dog’s vomit. The meat is boiled first with seasoning, salt and some Chopped Onions until tender. The Chicken is also boiled the same way but in different Pots.
When the meat is tender enough, I add Some Water to the Stock, and increase it to the size of soup I want to cook. The Chicken Stock is filtered and poured into the pot that has the Beef Stock.
The chicken is not added at this time so that it doesn’t over-cook. The fresh fish is boiled separately with onion and salt before being added when the soup is almost done. That way the tender pieces of fish are not crushed by the stirring ladle The chicken can only come in when the cooking of the Rice is done.
Back to the soup, the piece of Boiled Yam is Mashed or Pounded and added to the boiling pot of soup to thicken it. The shredded vegetable ( hot leaf) is also added, Salt and Seasoning cubes are added again if they are still needed. The Parboiled Chicken is also added and allowed to Simmer a little.
When I am satisfied with the thickness of the soup, I Turn off the Cooker.
served hot with the boiled rice.
Nice one!