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This post contains two recipes BY Ope.
- Egusi soup.
- Ofada stew (ayamase stew)
Finished cooking today and I remembered that i wanted to share my step by step photos of two stews i cooked …
Today.. ayamase stew and egusi stew
So sorry I forgot, that’s why I only took the end pics but i thought let me share it either way and explain how I arrived at these…. hope you guys don’t mind..
Ayamase stew: ( I think some people call it ofada stew).but
am not completely sure sha. (Correct me if am wrong)
Ingredients for ayamase stew aka ofada stew
5 large green peppers
1 red bell pepper
10 radio or chili pepper ( I love pepper so pls you can reduce it lol) it could be red or green
Palm oil
Onions
Eru (locust beans)
Boiled meat, shaki and pomo (cut in small small pieces like almost cube like)..you want full effect stew with all the stuff. lol
Blended pepper
Ground crayfish
How to cook ofada ste (Ayamase stew)
THE BLENDING OF PEPPERS FOR AYAMASE STEW
I blended my green,red pepper with onion and rodo pepper
But with little water because you don’t want it completely blended. You want it kinda shredded…like blended into shredded bits..so you have to control it in thew food blender while using spoon to push it due to small quantity of water.
Then, you can now Set it aside.
THE FRYING OF OIL FOR AYAMASE STEW
Put your palm oil on fire. For ofada stew. You have to let the palm oil be much because you want the stew buried in oil. When bleaching palm oil for ofada stew, please open your windows because of smoke from the hot oil.
I bleached the palm oil completely till the colour now looked like vegetable oil. Let the oil bleach on medium heat
After it is bleached.. I am coughing by this time. lol
I put the eru (locust beans) with pinches of salt in.
Then pour the not completely blended pepper into the oil.
It will make that loud sizzling sound. loool..
Put it on medium heat..season with your fav type.i used maggi chicken and salt..taste.
Cover the pot and let it do its thing.
Still on medium heat after like 10 minutes. add your grinded crayfish (it’s ok if you don’t want to..it just adds one particular kinda taste for mi sha. lol)
Add your diced already cooked meats
Cover your pot..leave it on medium or low heat til the palm oil moves back to the surface like in the picture..
and that’s it…
You have your delicious ayamase stew also called ofada stew …its lovely..
(Some of my friends used to go buy it from people.and it wasn’t all that.I have taught them and they’ve been cooking it ever since. Someone taught me too how to make ofada stew.
Hope I helped?
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| Cooking Egusi stew |
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| Ayamashe stew |
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| Egusi stew |
Second recipe is for egusi soup.
HOW TO COOK EGUSI SOUP THICKENED
Egusi soup with ugu leaves
A lot of people cook their egusi different but arrive at d same result.
This is how I cooked mine
Blended boiled pepper(red pepper,rodo,onion)
Titus fish(boiled or smoked) i pieced it in
Boiled nd diced meat/shaki/pomo( u want it reali loaded).lol
Blended egusi
Eru
Palmoil
Ugu
Seasoning
I started by putting my blended egusi in water,used my hand to make d lumps disappear(d quantity of egusi determines d water).u don’t want it too watery..
I kinda sieved it to get rid of d sand at d bottom of d mixture
Den added blended pepper to my egusi solution..when i felt it was red and peppery enough.i stirred it properly and put it on fire.
Added seasoning to taste,salt,d pieced titus fish and eru..
Covered it to boil for few mins under medium heat
I then added my cut and thoroughly washed ugu leaves,diced onion and my pieces of meat,shaki and pomo.lol
Stirred together.. added my red oil
I covered the pot
Waited for a little while and dats it.
It’s ready.
I had it with rice and dodo this afternoon (Saturday)
I thought i should share this. Sorry i didn’t take step by step.i forgot..
Thanks.
Opeyemi
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| A plate of boiled rice with egusi stew and fried plantain Enjoy! Other Recipes By Ope:
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I'm a big fan of ayamase stew but get lazy to cook it coz its so much hard work. This looks really nice. I add dry prawns, dry stock fish n boiled egg to mine as well as d diced beef, shaki and cowleg. Like u already did, its not complete without iru. Well done.
Nice 1 Ope… Imma try this by wkend BTW, pls I need help on ow to get rid of sun burn completely, I av tried all kinda stuffs, its clears and come bk.. Pls I need answers, cos its bcoming very embarassing.thanks n love u all.
OLAIDE
Hi Olaide, I use 2 have a massive sun burn patch on my face dat even concealer couldn't hide it. I used ori n it cleared completely within 3-4 weeks. I applied it morning n evening. To avoid sunburn buy a high protection sunburn cream n apply when going out in d sun.
Pls wat is ori
Ori is shea butter.
Shea Butter
Dear Ope,
Thank you for taking your time out to send in this post and I really appreciate your effort and I am sure others did as well. Please in subsequent posts, kindly endeavour to spell correctly; 'Reali' should be Really and 'Mi' should be Me. It is imperative for you to understand that I am not trying to knock your hustle/work but I feel its is encouraged that we spell/do things right as this blog/site is gaining international recognition.
@ Arabian princess, may be you are reading with a computer system. Writing with a mobile phone can be very difficult and it could be that is what Ope used to type.
Ope tried very well compared to some women who send stories asking for advise without writing complete words that one can read with ease.
Thank you Lizzy, Anon and Arabian Princess. Does anyone know if Ori can clear skin spots? Not acne spots, just white spots. I have used prescribed creams to no avail.
I only know it makes the skin supple/shiny. About clearing spots, I am not aware.
Thanks for posting this Ope. Is d green pepper for ofada the same type used for fried rice (green tatashe)? Shola
Funny that I also cooked Egusi stew one Saturday but it was my first time (I'm getting there, it wasn't bad but not as tasty sounding as this lol). Well done. I'd like to try that Ayamase stew next, but as someone said before, it's kind of a lot to do. Again, well done. 🙂
I luv ma eru too ..lol.nd i added it
Thankss
Trust mi.its nt a lot to do.i actually find it kinda easier dan stew cooking..but give it a try.it wil come out fabulous…
I think so Shola since green pepper is green pepper..op am rite cos i dnt use it dats why am soundin unsure
Pls which green pepper are u refering to? U said u blended green and red pepper with rodo.
Yes d green pepper is d fried rice green pepper.its 11.09pm and I just made this stew and it is perfect! God bless u all oo
****Mufasa Said
This is d first time am learning about green pepper for Ofada stew. I use Unripe Tomatoes and rodo with Onions and shred with a blender. Nice write-up though. Kudos to Ope.
Thanks for sharing Ayamse recipe will do this weekend