Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, ofada rice and sauce. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This ofada stew/ofada sauce recipe features a stew that originates from the Western part of Nigeria and is commonly eaten with a locally grown rice Once upon a time Ofada rice and stew was not a posh dish. It was somewhat looked down upon, and those who enjoyed it may have been looked at as. Ofada sauce is a locally made Yoruba (Ijebu) stew for ofada rice.
Ofada rice and sauce is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Ofada rice and sauce is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ofada rice and sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ofada rice and sauce:
- Get 16 cups ofada rice
- Get 3 cups palm oil
- Make ready 2 cups green pepper
- Get 7 cups red bell pepper
- Make ready 1 cup pepper
- Get 1.5 kg Goat meat
- Get 1/2 cup crayfish
- Take 10 seasoning cubes
- Prepare 1/2 cup iru(locust bean)
- Make ready Salt
- Make ready Ginger and garlic
- Take Curry and thyme
- Take All purpose seasoning
- Take Onions
- Get Water
Ofada rice and sauce is our traditional food in Nigeria, Ogun state to be precise It is usually eaten with this delicious sauce. Ofada rice is better eaten with a sauce. The most delicious sauce for the Ofada rice is known as Ayamase (also known as designer stew). I marveled the first time I saw someone preparing the sauce because until then, I never heard of it.
Steps to make Ofada rice and sauce:
- Properly wash the meat, spice and cook. Grind the all the pepper together with onions, pour in a pot and boil to dry into paste and set aside.
- When meat is cooked, cut into small pieces and set aside. Grind the crayfish and set aside.
- Put pot on fire, add the palm oil and allow to bleach. Cut onions. Add the onions to the bleached oil and fry till it turns slightly brown. Add the pepper paste and fry on moderately low heat. Fry till the paste start separating from the oil.
- Add the crayfish, iru,seasoning cubes,garlic,ginger,curry,thyme and stir. Add the meat together with the meat stock. Taste for salt and adjust if necessary. Allow to boil for 5-10mins.
- Drop the sauce. Put another put on fire with water. When it's boiling wash the rice and pour in to parboil. This will take roughly 7mins.
- Bring down the rice and wash while another water is on fire. Add salt to the water on fire. When boiling pour the washed rice to cook.
- Check if the water is dried. Drop if no water. Meal is ready.
- Serve the dinner.
Ofada rice is a name for heritage varieties of rice grown in south-west Nigeria. It is used in a variety of dishes. Ofada rices are mostly blends, and some of the rice varieties in the blends are not indigenous to Africa; however, they usually also contain African rice. Ofada rice is a whole grain, unpolished rice with a mild, nutty flavour with only the husk of the grain removed and it is more nutritious. Ofada rice is a popular Nigerian rice variety.
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