This is a traditional southern recipe. It's just refreshing especially as breakfast when you want a lazy day.
Ingredients
- Plantain, catfish,water, fresh bell pepper(optional), ground dry pepper, iwo, omilo or African nutmeg, yanyan (meat looking spice)
- Salt
- Seasoning cube,scent leaf, bitter leaf
- Mangrove salt( native salt), potash(ikanwu)
Directions
- 1Wash catfish with salt and hot water to remove the slime
Ground all spices together with the pepper
Ground native salt
Ground potash
Rinse scent leaf and bitter leaf to prevent sand, this could be dry or fresh but for this recipe we will go dry - 2Place pot with water on the stove
Peel plantain, shape and quantity as desired
Allow the plantain to boil for five minutes , then add your ground spices and pepper
Allow this to boil for about ten minutes - 3Add catfish, seasoning cube, salt , scent leaf , bitter leaf (2tablespoon)and allow to boil for five minutes
Lastly, add ground native salt and potash
Do not cover afterwards
Allow to boil for another five minutes and food is ready
P.S ; there are different methods to this, this works for me....