easy fisher man soup
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Recipe type: Lunch/Dinner
Cuisine: Nigerian
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Serves: 4-6
 
Ingredients
  • I whole cat fish; cleaned, gutted and cut into steaks(medium)
  • I medium Onion
  • crabs(optional)
  • Half a pound of shrimp
  • crayfish 2 tbsps
  • palm oil about 40mls(add more if you want to)
  • 1 habanero pepper or ata-rodo
  • 1 finger cayenne or chili pepper
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 4 cocoyam(peeled, washed, cooked, and pounded or throw in food processor to make a smooth puree)
  • salt to taste
  • Bouillon
  • 1 tsp dry pepper
  • A hand full of chopped basil or scent leaves
Instructions
to clean fish steaks
  1. place fish steaks into a bowl and pour some boiling water to cover it. Leave for a few minutes, rinse in cold water while using a butter knife to scrape off the slimy exterior(I found this method to be absolutely helpful). This process also helps to keep the fish from breaking easily
To cook soup
  1. put fish and crabs into a pot
  2. roughly or smoothly blend all your peppers and onion and pour over fish. Season with salt, 1tbspcrayfish, and or bouillon. Pour hot water right to the top of the fish then cover pot and on medium heat, bring soup to a boil. Let it cook for about 10 minutes or until the fish is almost cooked all the way. Remove the fish and the crabs from the pot; stir in the pounded coco yam and oil. cook for a few minutes or until the oil and the coco yam have mixed well with the soup. check to see if the soup is thickened. Add prawns, cooked fish and crabs, dry pepper, and crayfish. (If the soup is still watery, add some soaked garri) and shake the pot to combine. Do not cover the pot. Once the prawns, fish, and crabs are cooked, your soup should be thickened and done cooking at this point. Garnish with Basil or scent leaves and let soup rest for 10minutes before serving.
Recipe by Nigerian Lazy Chef at https://www.nigerianlazychef.com/2015/03/fisherman-soup/