Hello everyone!
Today I’ll be showing you how I made my “obe ata dindin” also known as Nigerian fried pepper stew. It can be eaten with white rice or any side of choice (yam, spaghetti, bread etc).
Now, the way I made this sauce is different from what you’d normally see. I didn’t fry my meats. Instead I only boiled them and also used the stock for the stew. But I made sure that I didn’t use too much water while boiling my meat so that the stock wouldn’t make the stew watery. This is because the water would dry up easy and fast.
Now, let’s get into the recipe.
INGREDIENTS
Beef
Ponmo (cow skin)
Dried fish
Smoked fish
Boiled eggs
Palm oil – 2 cups
Pounded crayfish – about 8 tablespoons
Sliced onions
Iru (locust beans)
Tatashe (red bell peppers)
Shombo (cayenne peppers)
Pounded scotch bonnet
Knorr seasoning cube – 1 cube
Salt
FOR BOILING THE MEAT
Sliced onions
Knorr seasoning cubes – 2 cubes
Salt – 1/4 teaspoon
Water – 3 cups
Note: Blend red bell peppers, cayenne peppers and half portion of the locust beans together.
PROCEDURE
1. Pour washed beef, ponmo and dried fish into a pot.
2. Add onions, knorr seasoning cubes, salt and water.
3. Stir, cover and boil until the beef and ponmo are tender.
Alternatively, you can use a pressure cooker to enable the meat to soften faster.
4. Meanwhile, pour pepper blend (peppers + locust beans) in a pot or pan and allow to cook until the water dries out. This can also be done before the cooking starts.
5. Pour palm oil into a pot and allow to get hot.
I did not bleach my palm oil. I just allowed it to get a little hot and added my onions to fry as it got hotter.
6. Add sliced onions and allow to fry for a while.
7. Add locust beans and fry a few minutes
8. Add pounded crayfish and fry for some time.
9. Add parboiled pepper blend.
10. Add pounded scotch bonnet and knorr seasoning cubes. Fry until you are sure that any leftover water from the pepper blend has dried out. A good sign would be to see the oil floating at the top.
11. Add boiled meat + ponmo + dried fish and smoked fish. Also, add the meat stock.
At this point, you can adjust your salt and seasoning to your taste. Or you can do so after the next step.
12. Stir and allow to cook until the oil floats at the top.
13. Add boiled eggs
14. Stir and cook for a few minutes.
And it’s ready!
Enjoy with white rice or any other side of your choice.
Watch “obe ata dindin” recipe video below.
So that’s it for the recipe. Be sure to let me know how it goes if you try it out.
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