Okro soup

Ingredients

• 1-2 kg Beef, Goat meat, Chicken or Turkey
• 500g of finely chopped fresh Okro
• 2 finely chopped onions
• 2 large scotch bonnet pepper
• 1tsp Baking Soda
• 1 smoked or cooked mackerel
• 4 cups frozen spinach or 6 handful fresh spinach
• 1/2 cup palm oil
• 2 medium tomatoes chopped
• 2 garlic clove finely chopped
• 2-4 Blue crabs cooked (cook for 10 minutes water with salt)
• 4 tbsp ginger garlic mix (see recipe)
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 maggi cube of your choice
• salt to taste

Directions

• 1Clean the meat and place it on a medium heat
• 2Add 1 maggi cube, ginger garlic mix and salt and cook it for about 30 minutes
• 3In a separate pot, put the chopped okro and add about 1 to 2 cups of water and add baking soda and let it come to a boil. Stir frequently until it gets really thick and slimy.The baking soda is to get the okro thick and slimy
• 4Heat the palm oil in another pot and add the chopped onions and garlic, fry until they are soft and glaze.
• 5Add the tomatoes and stir occasionally for 2 minutes then add the tomato paste and pepper keep stirring till palm oil rise to the top when the water evaporates
• 6Add your meat and crab and stir for 5 minutes (keep the meat broth)
• 7Pour the okro to tomatoes stew and stir until everything is mixed together and lower the heat and let it simmer.
• 8Add the mackerel (break it in 2)
• 9Let it simmer for 10 minutes
• 10Serve your okro soup with hot banku, pounded yam, ebba, griesmeel etc...

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