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Easy and delicious Nigerian Fisherman soup

Nigerian Fisherman soup

Nigerian Fisherman soup (Efere Ndek Iyak), a simple soup made with fish and other seafood as its protein source.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course, Soup
Cuisine niger delta, Nigerian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • Fresh catfish
  • prawn or shrimp
  • Periwinkle (Isam)
  • Ngolo (Whelks)
  • Dryfish
  • Stock fish cooked
  • Cameroun pepper optional
  • Ground Scotch bonnet (Fresh Pepper)
  • 1 medium Onion chopped or pureed
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Uziza seed
  • ½ cup Ground Crayfish
  • 1/2-3/4 cup Palmoil
  • 3 Seasoning cubes
  • Salt
  • ½ cup pounded Yam
  • small bunch Uziza leaves, shredded
  • 2 whole Okro (sliced)

Instructions
 

  • Wash the fresh catfish, cut and set aside. Clean snails, prawns and ngolo.
  • Boil and pound yam.
  • Place fish, snail, dry fish and stockfish in a medium-sized pot, season with salt and 1 seasoning cube.
  • Add Onion, scotch bonnet, Cameroun pepper, a little scotch bonnet, ground uziza seed and 2 cups of water.
  • Cover, bring to a boil and cook on low heat for 5 minutes.
  • Remove the fish, set aside.
  • Increase the heat and continue cooking the snail, add Ngolo, crayfish, 2 seasoning cubes, and some water.
  • Bring to a boil, add Palm oil and lumps of pounded yam.
  • Cook until thickened and the soup has a uniform colour. (If there are still lumps of pounded yam at this stage, scoop them out, it delicious to eat).
  • Gently put the fish back, add prawn, periwinkle and okro. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
  • Add shredded Uziza leaf, cook for another 2 minutes and take off the heat.

Notes

  • Serve your Fisherman soup with any swallow of choice, but it deserves pounded yam.
     
Keyword seafood