HOW TO COOK NIGERIAN WHITE SOUP WITH BEEF, COW SKIN AND SMOKED CATFISH

Nigerian white soup served with hot pounded yam.
This Nigerian white soup is best enjoyed with poundo, starch,
semovita,wheatmeal or not too soft Amala. I don'tenjoy it with Eba. To thicken
this soup, pounded yam or cocoyam (the type used for
cooking onugbu bitter leaf soup) can be used. White soup cooks fast, so, it's best to
 get all the ingredients ready before you commence cooking.



The thickness of this soup depends on what you want. The more the pounded yam
dropped in the soup, the thicker it gets. After adding the pounded yam or pounded
cocoyam, it is best to check often, else your soup can get too thick ( turn to potorpotor).
 I like it with cocoyam too because of the slightly slimy texture that pounded cocoyam
adds to the soup. Other ingredients like periwinkles and stock-fish can be added if you wish.


Cooking this Nigerian white soup with goat meat is like the best. I like that goat meat
flavor in white soups. To change the flavor, sometimes I cook with goat meat. I don't
really enjoy chicken in soups, except I have to dry or fry chicken dry before adding.
 I like my soups with beef or goat meat and chicken left for tomato stew or chicken soup


This white soup was so very tasty I couldn't resist taking more than a handful. The kids
also ate well because I did not cook with much pepper. Remember,uziza makes the soup more peppery, watch your pepper...


Boiling washed beef with onion and salt


Adding washed cow skin (pomo) to the cooked beef


Adding water from the boiled yam and more salt to taste

Ingredients For Nigerian white soup:
Beef
Salt
Onion
kpomo
Boiled yam water
Palm oil
Pepper sauce or ground pepper
Knorr Seasoning cubes
Locust beans
Smoked fish
Pounded yam
Hot leaf


Adding a few drops of palm oil to white soup


Just a few drops of Palm oil


Hot leaf (uziza) for white soup



Dry uziza seeds



Dry Uziza seeds


Adding ground pepper with knorr seasoning cubes to white soup


Adding ground locust beans to soup


Adding smoked catfish to boiling pot of Nigerian white soup


Checking for salt and soup taste while soup boils. Most times I reduce the
heat before taking pictures so that vapour doesn't cloud the food


Adding a little pounded yam as a thickener to white soup


Adding hot leaf (uziza) and 10 ground uziza seeds to white soup


Check for salt, Stir soup and allow to complete cooking


White soup boils and thickens


Nigerian white soup is cooked and ready to be served


Hot White soup with pounded yam




Nigerian white soup with a side of pounded yam


Try not to add smoked fish early as you will find no piece to chew.
Add smoked fish in the middle of the cooking. For fish eaters like me,
 the best way to enjoy beef is to cut into smaller pieces so that it cooks
very very well inside. That way you don't get to smell the beef thing in your throat while eating.
Enjoy!