Nigerian Beef Soup/Curry

The Nigerian beef soup is one of my favorite dishes. My Amma makes it in a very special way. I just love having it again and again. My taste buds are beyond control as I go on with this recipe. Let me start off with a brief prologue on this Nigerian Soup/curry recipe…..

Nigerian soup and pounded yam is a staple food consumed in most parts of Nigeria, especially in Oyo State, where I was born and where I stayed till my 3^rd grade. We used to have lots of this food at our B’day parties along with Amma’s delicious Beef Cutlets (That recipe is left for the next post ).

Ingredients:

Beef- 1 kg

Tomato-3-4 big ones

Onions-2-3 big ones

Red Chili Powder-3-4 tbs

Oil-to fry the beef

Preparation:

The main ingredients of this Nigerian dish are tomato and beef. The more the tomato, the merrier. First pressure cook the beef (usually cut into big pieces) with an onion and salt to taste. There is no need to add water, as water will ooze out of the juicy beef. While the beef is being pressure cooked, grind the rest of the onions and tomatoes to a fine paste along with red chili powder and keep it aside. Once the beef is cooked, strain the beef from the stock and keep the stock aside for later use. Deep fry the beef.

Remove the fried meat from oil, pour the tomato-onion paste into this oil and maintain a medium flame for about 5 minutes. Then add the beef stock to this along with the fried beef. Cook this on a low flame for about 10-15 minutes. This will give ample time for the beef to soak up the taste.

This dish can be had with rice or yam….I usually have it with rice and I keep eating and eating and eating……….

I hope you find this recipe easy and can make use of it at Majboori times!!!!

Enjoy!!!!!

EmManuel

PS: Come back to this blog for the next exotic dish!!!!!!!!!