Please note that amounts are not provided, and we have approximated cooking times. For really good flavor, Ester wants you to know that you can add gizzards! Like many African dishes, her okra stew is accompanied by fufu or banku, a cassava or corn maize doughy ball used to scoop up this hearty stew. Download recipe Ester’s Okra StewĮster has graciously shared her recipe for Nigerian okra stew with our community. You can taste the flavors of Nigeria in your own kitchen. Dine Africa with me.Posted at 13:18h in General News by FCS Office Join me as we celebrate food, love and life. I shall also share some easy kitchen tips for the ‘lazy’ cooks like me. Please join me as I celebrate the arts through African (Nigerian) cooking and through my mother’s recipes (some of which I tweaked to fit my choices). Cooking has inspired my project - “Dine Africa”, which is set to show Africa’s culinary culture and exotic cuisines alongside its wide variety of ethnic nationalities, cultures and enormous land mass. I now see cooking as an art, and I consider it my own contribution to the arts in general. From then, I became more interested in cooking and started developing recipes. And the necessity to cook for others, and myself, pushed me to look for ways to rustle up simple but delicious meals. While my father was alive (may GOD rest his soul), he used to have me make him fresh, oil-less okra soup and boy did I hate it! As the years went by, I started falling in love with art. In fact, my laziness when it came to cooking could be said to have superseded epic proportions! At a point all I could cook was ‘jollof supergetti’ for my brothers. As a growing girl, I disliked ‘going into the kitchen’ because I was so ‘lazy’. I am quirky, and what you would call a nerd. I shall also share some easy kitchen tips for the lazy cooks like me. Please join me as I celebrate the arts through African (Nigerian) cooking and through my mother's recipes (some of which I tweaked to fit my choices). While my father was alive (may GOD rest his soul) he used to have me make him fresh oiless okra soup and LORD did I hate it! As the years went by I started falling inlove with art and cooking which is my own contribution to the arts has inspired my project "Dine Africa" which is set to show along side Africa's wide variety of ethnic nationalities, cultures and enormous landmass is, if course, its culinary culture and exotic cuisines At some point all I could cook was "jollof supergetti" for my brothers. As a growing girl, I disliked going in the kitchen because I was so "Lazy"infact, my laziness when it came to cooking could superceded epic proportions. Hi.My name is Nma I am quirky and what you would call a nerd. You could make some with oatmeal or even use bisquick □ For my Non-Nigerian readers, you can find any of these swallows in their powdered form at any Nigerian or African shop and all you have to do is roll the powder in boiling water. I’ve also had it with wheat swallow too and it was very good. My favorite accompaniment with this meal is Pounded yam or soft rolled garri. I combines my love for stew and okra and brings them into reality. I see this soup as the best of both worlds. I wouldn’t think other wise anyway because a lot of the Yoruba type of recipes I’ve tried are usually stew or pepper based. I don’t know for sure the origin of this soup, but I have heard so far that it’s a Yoruba thing. (I’ve learnt to have him take off his shirt before a meal of Okra and stew). In fact, anytime he sees me preparing stew, he instantly assumes that there will be a side of Okra and his favorite swallow and once I tell him “ummm, it’s for rice, he goes ” aAnytime I serve him this meal, he eats it very quietly. His silence during a meal usually means he’s enjoying it. I mean he would eat until his belly would be popping out and he would have the soup all over his chest. After the first day I made some for dinner, my ajebutter has always wanted more. I didn’t like it much, but lately I’ve been making a lot of it because of my ajebutter and I have grown to love it as much as he does. Growing up, my mother made this on some busy Sundays when she couldn’t be bothered with rice and stew. The red and green soup is a meal of simplicity and it’s made by mixing chopped okra with any type of Nigerian stew. This is my son’s favorite soup of all time and I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t share the recipe with you guys.
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