Cookbook:Ukazi Soup

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Ukazi soup is an Igbo soup made from okazi and water leaf. It is similar to afang soup, but okazi soup is thicker.

• 6 pieces meat (optional)
• Periwinkles or snail meat (optional)
• 4 dryfish, cleaned
• 3 stock cubes
• ¾ cup palm oil
• 2 ea. "cameroon peppers" or yellow habanero chiles, chopped
• 60 g achara (optional)
• 6 ground crayfish
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 40 g okazi leaf

• Pot
• Bowl

• Stove
• Stirring spoon
• Kitchen knife and chopping board

1. Boil the meat and fish in water with stock cubes until the meat is tender.
2. Stir in the palm oil and chiles. Cook until yellow.
3. Reduce the heat and stir in the achara and crayfish.
4. Season to taste with stock cubes and salt, then cook for 5 more minutes.
5. Stir in the okazi leaf, and cook for 3 minutes.