🇳🇬 How to Make Catfish Pepper Soup

Craving Catfish Pepper Soup? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Catfish Pepper Soup at home, in about 35 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 700g catfish, cut into steaks, washed with hot water and salt to firm the skin
• 2 tbsp pepper soup spice (uziza, ehuru, uda, gbafilo)
• 2 scotch bonnets, blended
• 1 small onion, blended
• 1 tbsp ground crayfish
• a handful of scent leaf (efirin) or basil
• 2 stock cubes, salt
• 4 cups water

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Rinse the catfish in hot salted water and handle it gently from here. It falls apart if you stir the pot.
2. Bring the water to a boil with the blended onion, pepper, crayfish and stock cubes.
3. Add the pepper soup spice and boil 5 min so it opens up before the fish goes in.
4. Slide the fish in, do not stir — shake the pot instead. Simmer 12–15 min.
5. Taste and correct salt and heat. It should be properly hot; this is a soup people eat when they have a cold.
6. Throw the scent leaf in, cover, and cut the heat. Serve in a bowl with the broth, and drink the broth last.