COTTON SEED SOUP

REQUIREMENTS

- 1 small size Smoked fish
- 8 medium pieces Bush meat
- 2 tablespoons crayfish (ground)
- 1 medium mudu Palm fruit
- 5 cups cotton seed
- 1 wrap Fermented locust bean(iru)
- 1 medium bunch spinach
- 3 medium size fresh tomato (ground)
- 1 medium bulb Onion (ground)
- 1 tablespoon dried pepper (ground)
- 2 maggi cubes
- 5 litres Water
- Salt to taste



What you do

Wash the palm fruit and boil with 2 litres of water till the fruits are soft.Pound and mix with 2 litres of warm water and strain to get oily extract.

Pound or grind the cotton seed until well blended.Add 1 litre of hot water and mix. Sieve the pounded cotton seed 2-3 times.

Place the oily extract on the burner and allow boiling.Add the cotton seed extract and boil till the foam disappears.

Add the washed smoked fish, bush meat, crayfish, tomato, onion, locust bean, pepper, and maggi cube.

Stir and allow boiling for about 20 - 30 minutes.

Pick, wash and shred the spinach.Add to the soup and salt to taste.

Simmer for few minutes, then remove from heat and serve.

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