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Fish Pepper Soup is a nutritious and spicy West African soup full of health benefits. It differentiates itself from other soups by its hotness. It is exactly what you need when you have the following problems: loss of appetite, digestion problem, cold or cough.
The main ingredients for this soup are hot pepper (scotch bonnet or habanero pepper), onions, Alligator pepper, Pebe, white pepper, Njansa, selim pepper, ginger leaves (also called Odjom leaves). The quantity of hot pepper you use for this recipe depends on you. Some people like it too hot and some people don’t. I don’t like it too hot and that is why I just used just one hot pepper for this recipe.
Alligator pepper, Pebe, Njansa, and Selim pepper are hard to blend. For this reason, I boil them first in a small pot for a few minutes to soften them before blending.
Fish Pepper Soup is so simple to cook. You just need to clean the fish ready for cooking. Then you prepare the spices for blending. After that, you just mix it all with oil, and water and cook. The cooking also doesn’t take long, in 20 minutes the soup is practically ready.
Fish Pepper Soup
Ingredients
- 2 Fishes
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 onion
- 1 hot pepper
- 3 Pebe (African nutmeg)
- 1 Alligator pepper
- 3 Negro/Selim pepper
- 1 handful of persil
- 25 Njansa
- 1 white pepper
- 5 garlic gloves
- 10 g ginger
- 2 spring onions
- 3 ginger leaves
- 2 tbsp oil
- water
Instructions
- Clean the fish, cut them, and wash them ready for cooking. Sprinkle them with salt and set aside
- Prepare the spices ready for blending. Since Alligator pepper, Pebe, Njansa, and Selim pepper are hard to blend, boil them first in a small pot for a few minutes to soften before blending.
- Blend all the spices, excerpt the ginger leaves and hot pepper
- Put the fish, salt, blended spices, and tomato paste in a cooking pan and mix.
- Add the oil and water (about 300 to 500ml). Let it cook at medium heat for about 10 minutes. Then taste the soup, add more salt if necessary.
- Add the ginger leaves and hot pepper. Let the soup cook for another 10 minutes.
- The soup is ready. It can be served with plantain, yam, or another side dish of your choice. Enjoy!
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