Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, white soup (afia efere). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
It is called Afia Efere in the Efik culture. You probably also know it as Ofe Nsala, the Igbo name for it. The Efik version is a little more aromatic because What uyayak does to the soup is better tried than imagine.
White Soup (Afia efere) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. White Soup (Afia efere) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook white soup (afia efere) using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make White Soup (Afia efere):
- Make ready 1 full chicken
- Get uyak pod (pepper soup spice)
- Get Chicken Stock
- Get cubes quarter of yam sliced and cut in big
- Take to taste salt
- Get 1 tsp cameroon pepper
- Make ready 2 fresh pepper blended
- Make ready 2 knorr cube
- Make ready 1/2 cup Uziza leaf (optional)
They are both white, but they are not one or the same. Afia Efere which is the Efik version makes use of less ingredients unlike the Igbo version which uses Uda, Ogiri Okpei, Ehuru, Utazi and Uziza. My first experience of afia efere (white soup) was at my uncles wedding some few years ago and boy did I enjoy it? I loved every bit of it.
Steps to make White Soup (Afia efere):
- Wash and parboil the chicken and spice with salt and pepper allow cook halfway add yam and cook till it tender, you can remove some of the yam and pound it to make your pounded yam and leave the rest in the pot to help thicken the soup
- Add uyak pod that is the pepper soup spice, fresh pepper and then stir and allow to boil for about 10minutes
- Stir in the uziza leaf and turn off the heat; serve with pounded yam or you can enjoy it alone as a soup
Everyone wanted to have a taste of afia efere also called white soup at the engagement party, it was a hit. Afia Efere translate directly to white soup, it's so named due to the peculiar white color of the soup. The color is due to the thickener use (pounded yam) The beauty of this soup is in it simplicity; on the simplest level, efere is a earthy broth usually made from goat meat or fresh fish and seasoned with. Afia Efere is one of the best and a typical calabar delicacy. I could remember vividly in those days while growing up as a child, My mum and I went to the market to purchase our Christmas wares and little did we know that the resources would be diverted for Afia Efere a.k.a Our white soup.
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