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Cow Foot with Assorted Beef Pepper Soup – Lunch Recipe

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  • Cooking time: 45 minutes
  • Portion: 8 persons

Ingredients:

  • Cow foot with assorted beef
  • Four seeds ehu or ariwo or calabash nutmeg
  • Three stock cubes Two medium onions
  • One teaspoon of thyme (for chicken pepper soup)
  • Chilli pepper to taste
  • salt to taste
  • Two teaspoons crushed dry uziza (optional)

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

– Maya Angelou

Energy value:

  • calories 594kcal
  • proteins 19g
  • fats 55g
  • carbohydrates 19g

Pre-process:

For grinding the ehu seeds, you will need: a spice/coffee grinder

Before you cook the Pepper Soup:

  • Chicken Pepper Soup, it is preferable to use whole chicken instead of drumsticks.

The different parts of the chicken will bring variety to the pepper soup. So, wash and cut up the whole chicken and set aside.

  • Assorted Beef Pepper Soup: then you should buy different parts of beef – best cut, offal (shaki, round-about, liver and kidney). Wash the offal thoroughly especially the round-about which should be turned inside out during the washing. Cut these into medium pieces, just big enough to be chewed in one go.
  • Cow Foot Pepper Soup, just wash and cut the cow foot into medium pieces. In this case, also make the pieces just big enough that it can be chewed in one go. roast ehu for pepper soup.
  • Now it is time to prepare the ‘secret’ ingredient.
  • Using an old frying pan, roast the Ehu seeds (stirring constantly) till you can smell it.
  • Don’t worry, you will know when it is fine to take it off because it has a distinctive aroma. Another way to know that it is fine is to take one of the seeds and try to remove the outer membrane. If the membrane comes off easily, then the Ehu is done. grind ehu for pepper soup.
  • Peel off the membrane from all the Ehu seeds and grind with a dry mill.
  • Cut the onions into tiny pieces.
  • Rub the dry uziza with your fingers to break them into tiny pieces.

Preparation:

  1. This cooking direction describes Chicken Pepper Soup. To prepare Goat Meat Pepper Soup, Cow Foot Pepper Soup or Assorted Beef Pepper Soup just substitute chicken with cow foot or beef and offal respectively.
  2. At first, place the pieces of chicken in a pot and pour enough water to cover the contents of the pot. Add the stock cubes, thyme and onions and cook till done.
Important:
  1. When cooking Assorted Beef Pepper Soup, you should cook the shaki for some time before adding the other beef parts. Shaki is tough and will take longer to cook than the other beef parts.
  2. Cow foot is a tough part of meat so when cooking Cow Foot Pepper Soup, you should use a pressure cooker if you have one. This will save you some gas or electricity.
  3. By now, you will notice that some of the water has dried.
  4. Add more water to bring it to the level of the contents of the pot.
  5. Add the ground Ehu, dry uziza, chili pepper and salt to taste. Ehu has some spicy taste so you should add chili pepper with care.
  6. Even though it is called pepper soup, you still want to be able to taste and enjoy the recipe itself.
  7. Too much chili pepper will ruin it for you.
  8. Cover the pot and leave to boil for five minutes and the pepper soup is ready.
  9. Pepper Soup should always be served hot. It can be eaten alone with a chilled drink by the side.
  10. You can also eat it with Agidi, White Rice or Boiled Yam