The Market Girl

SOUP

Ewedu

ewedu

Preparation Time: 20 mins

Cooking Time: 10 hours

Ingredients

ewedu leave

A Handful of Frozen Ewedu (Jute) leaves

locust beans

Fermented locust beans (iru)

1 tsp

dry crayfish powder

Dry Crayfish powder

1 tsp

salt

Salt (optional)

1½ tsp

ewedu leave

A Handful of Frozen Ewedu (Jute) leaves

locust beans

Fermented locust beans (iru)

1 tsp

dry crayfish powder

Dry Crayfish powder

1 tsp

salt

Salt (optional)

1½ tsp

Preparation

  1. Blend the jute leaves, locust beans and add crayfish powder, pour the contents into a pot.
  2. Stir the mixture in the pot and do not cover it throughout the process.
  3. Cook on medium heat for about 5 mins.
  4. Serve with the Gbegiri (as per recipe) on the bottom, followed by Iwedu, followed by Ofe mmanu (as per the recipe) on top of this. Serve with any swallow meal (as per recipe).
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OUR CHEF

Recipe of The Market girl.

Folashade Olushanu is a wife, mother, friend, confidante, lover of God and so much more.

Cooking has been a source of release for her throughout her life, with the local market in her native Nigeria being her first experience in selling her dishes to expectant customers. Folashade has since opened restaurants, catered for significant occasions and most importantly satisfied the seemingly insatiable demands of seven growing children!

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