IRU STEW

So yesterday while contemplating what to make and eat for breakfast so to speak, I cast my mind back to a fairly recent conversation with a friend right in my kitchen and we were discussing my clay pot 🤓 recently acquired by my mum. You know those local red earth pots that have been blackened and are used to cook in the villages where they have no modcons?

Wellllllllllll I am the proud owner of 2 of those pots💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

I used it to cook my ugwu efo a little while ago and so yesterday I used it to cook iru stew or locust bean stew. 

Oh my word! Local cooking methods and utensils are the bees knees!

So the stew had:

1 piece of smoked catfish

1 small pack of iru (sells for 50 naira)

6-8 cooking spoons of bamboo steamed and blended pepper mix

1 cooking spoon of ede or ground crawfish 

2 cooking spoons of organic palm oil 

1 small red onion chopped or sliced thinly 

4 garlic cloves chopped or sliced thinly 

 

Heat up clay pot, pour in oil and immediately pour in all ingredients except  pepper mix. 

Stir and cook for a couple minutes. 

Add pepper mix, stir and cover pot. Cook for 15-20 minutes. 

Voila! Serve with Ofada rice, steamed yam, steamed plantain, okro, ewedu, ogbono. See the possibilities are endless 

Don't you just love food💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

I had it with steamed yam and boiled eggs. Yummy 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Live healthy!

As I had deleted the pictures on my phone 🙈🙈🙈