A Day Off Work: Preparing Afang Soup

Hello everyone, so last week Friday which happened to be 12th January, 2024, I had a day off from work then I decided to prepare our local delicacy, sincerely, I won't lie here, it's been a while my gas was turned on, it's not because I can't cook or something, but no time to do so.

I work Monday to Saturday every week and I close from work by 8pm, so the time dosent favour me to eat more of home cooked food, but then, last week, I just couldn't waste the whole day so I had to prepare Afang Soup which happened to be my favorite soup, join me as I share the preparation process with you all.

First of all, I went to the market and bought all the necessary ingredients needed to the preparation, so these are the ingredients I used.

• Afang leaf (grounded)

• Water leaf

• Crayfish

• Beef

• Ice fish

• Perewinkle

• Cow Skin (Kpomo)

• Seasoning Cube

• Salt

• Palm Oil

• Pepper

• Water

• I started by washing and chopping the water leaf.

• Washed the protein source (meat, fish, Kpomo and Perewinkle)

• I seasoned the protein sources with seasoning cubes, salt and pepper then steamed it.

• I allowed the water to dry them added a cup of water and continues steaming it.

• After steaming for about 3 more minutes and they were 90% done, I went in with my chopped water leaf.

• I allowed the water leaf to seamer for 1 minute, then I added pepper, salt, seasoning cubes and crayfish and closed the pot back to seamer for a minute more.

• After about a minute, I added palm oil to it, closed it back and allowed the palm to mix well while it molecules will be broken down by the heat.

• After about a minute, the palm oil had mixed very well, I then added the grounded Afang leaf and stirred for a moment.

• I didn't allow the Afang leaf to be on heat for up to a minute, then I turned off the gas cooker.

• My Afang soup is ready, I served it with hot garri!!.

N/B: I am not a professional chef, my measurement of ingredients might not be accepted but then, this is how I learnt how to prepare Afang soup.