My Manageable Afang Soup Recipe || 20- 03- 2025 ||Men Too Can Cook

kidi40 (72)in Steemit Iron Chef • 11 months ago (edited)

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Earlier today, I had a short conversation with my mom and at the end, I acknowledge her that I'll Cook her a delicious soup and she douted. Well I had to patiently wait for her to left the house before I made my moves.

Funny enough I was left with just 3,000 Naira in my wallet, approximately 15 piece of steems currency which wasn't enough for the soup I intended to cook, that got me intimidated and somehow procrastinated but i managed to conquer the feeling by economically crafting out my market list as presented below.

My Low Budget Afang Soup Recipe.

Ingredients.	Price in Nigeria Currency.	Estimated Steem Price.
Afang Leaf.	N500.	2.5 Steems.
Waterleaf.	N300.	1.5 Steems.
Fish.	N500.	N2.5 Steems.
Cow Skin.	N500.	2.5 Steems
Periwinkle.	N200.	1 Steems.
Crayfish.	N200.	1 Steems.
Red Oil.	N200.	1 Steems.
Maggi/Pepper.	N200.	1 Steems.
Garri.	N1,000.	5 Steems.
Total.	N3,600.	18 Steems.

The Preparation Process.

After I figured out the ingredients for the soup and the total amount of money to spend, I dressed up and went to the market. It happened that I was too earlier so I had to wait for the market people to came before finding good food stuff to buy, that was exactly what I did though I stayed longer than expected. Upon arriving home, I took to prepared my ingredients for the soup, let's see how it goes.


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I started by preserving the periwinkle, I took to washed it repeatedly untill the black dirty water as seen in the first picture became pure and clean; as seen in the second picture, the periwinkle was healthy to eat, to make it tasty I applied a little quantity of salt to keep it steam as seen in picture three.


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Here is the cow skin which usually serves as meat in the soup, I unwrapped it from the bag and took to washed it, for a proper wash I applied salt and thoroughly washed to have the second picture as a result, I then took a step to cut it into pieces and kept it close to prevent it from flies.


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Here is the fish I bought, some tribe call it bonga fish but we called it ibat in my mother tongue. I prepared it by peeling off the skin and removed the little food inside the tummy and washed in a clean water.


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Water leaf was my next target. After I had washed it repeatedly and confirmed it's cleanliness, I took to slicing it, yes I mean I sliced it myself because I can handle it as seen in picture two, I sliced the whole veggies into smallest pieces and kept it for cooking.

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I kept my spices in a single plate, dried grain pepper, four pieces of peel Maggie and grain crayfish all in a single plate. Others ingredients were also available; salt, oil and the likes. After I escaped the whole preparation process, i jumped into the cooking process, let's see it goes.

The Cooking Process.

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I poured the waterleaf into a pot without adding water and cooked it on the cylinder, I allowed it cook for some second and the green leaf faded it's natural color. Water leaf is always moisture so untill now, water wasn't added.


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As the natural green colour faded, I took to add the ingredients to the cook waterleaf. The cow skin, fish, periwinkle, Maggie, crayfish, pepper and salt were all added; using the soup spoon, I turn the soup to get everything mixed up before I applied oil and kept it covered without adding water. By this method, the soup was able to be well seasoned and enhanced it's aroma/taste.


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After some seconds or a minute, I took to adding a half cup of water to the soup to make it a bit watered and then allowed it cooked for 40 seconds before I applied the afang leaf to the soup and allowed it cooked for 30 seconds before I turned the soup. My food was later done, anyone can basically choose to eat with garri or eba and even semovita.


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A sweet delicacy can also be cooked even with the least money just like I used the least money to cook mine. In a world where foodstuff price hike, there's also a possibility of minimizing or better still reducing our habits of buying to better fit our daily income.