How To Prepare Catfish Pepper Soup.

Cat-fish Pepper Soup

Ingredients for Catfish Pepper Soup:

• 500g Cat Fish
• 4 Ehu or Ariwo or Calabash Nutmeg seeds
• Habanero Pepper or chilli pepper (to taste)
• Scent leaves
• 2 medium onions
• Salt (to taste)
• 2 big stock cubes

Step 1

• To prepare Cat Fish Pepper Soup, wash and cut the cat fish into 1-inch thick slices.
• Boil some hot water and pour on the pieces of fish,
• stir and remove immediately.

Note: This toughens the skin of the fish so that it does not fall apart during cooking

Step 2

• Now it is time to prepare the 'secret' ingredient. Using an old frying pan,
• roast the Ehu seeds (stirring constantly) till you can smell it.
• Peel off the membrane from all the Ehu seeds
• grind with a dry mill.
• Cut the onions into tiny pieces.
• Wash and pick the scent leaves and tear them up with your fingers into small pieces 
• Place the pieces of fish in a pot and pour water to just cover the fish, 
• add the stock cubes and bring to the boil. 
• add the ground ehu, onions, habanero pepper and scent leaves and continue cooking. 
• Once the catfish is done, add salt to taste and leave to simmer for about 5 minutes and it's ready! 

Catfish Pepper Soup should always be served hot. It can be eaten alone with a chilled drink. I love to eat it with Agidi, Boiled White Rice or Boiled Yam.

Ehu Calabash Nutmeg Seeds

Habanero/Bonnet pepper(Rodo)

Chill Pepper