04/12/2022
How to cook sea food pepper soup.
Ingredients :
– 1 medium sized Tilapia/Catfish or your favorite lower-fat fish
(I used 2 small sized Tilapia)
– 150 g Fresh Shrimps
– 150 g Sea Snails (or periwinkles)
– 1 tablespoonful of ground dried Crayfish
– 2 spoonful Ground pepper soup spice mix(see how to make it)
– Habanero/Chili Pepper/ (to taste)
– 1 tablespoonful Uziza/basil leaves(nchawun/efirin) (optional)
– 1 large Stock cube /1 tablespoon seasoning powder
– 1 medium Onion bulb(chopped)
– Salt , to taste
– Water (as needed)
Tips:
+ You can also make use of oysters, crabs, lobster, mussel, squid, scallops, clams or any other seafood but be aware that the cooking time will differ, depending on your seafood of choice.
+ If you want a more filling soup, add some unripe plantains, yam or potato to the soup
+ Crayfish is also a seafood, so feel free to add it whole without grinding.
Preparation
1.a If you don’t have the pre- packaged pepper soup spices, you can easily prepare your own pepper soup spices by following our recipeHERE.
b. Clean the fresh shrimps, remove the shell and veins(the black line on the backbone) and set aside.
c. Precook the sea snails in salted water for 5 to 10 minutes, strain and set aside. If using periwinkles, no need to precook, simply rinse thorougly and set aside for later use.
d.
Wash the fish thoroughly and cut into
smaller sizes.
Now to prepare the seafood pepper soup
2. Place the fish pieces into a pot, add enough water to slightly cover the fish, add onions, pepper, stock cube and salt to taste. Parboil for 5 to 10 minutes .
Then add a little water, add the boiled snails/periwinkles, cleaned shrimps ground or whole crayfish and the ground pepper soup spices, mix gently and cook until all the seafood are done cooking(takes about 10 minutes more or less).
Tip: the type of fish or seafood you use, will determine the cooking time.
3. Finally, add the uziza or basil leaves and leave to simmer for 30 seconds.
Serve hot and enjoy.
