Delicious Nkwobi and pineapple juice

Nkwobi-recipe

Nkwobi is one of Nigeria’s most popular evening desserts. It is as old as time. It is a delicacy of the Igbo in the Eastern part of the country. However, everyone eats it, foreigners inclusive.

This delicacy is made with different kinds of meats, but preferably the cow leg and tail.

Nkwobi is usually served for relaxation purposes. One of the main ingredients for the delicacy is the utazi leave, which adds a faint bitter taste to it.

Ingredients

•Cow tail and assorted meat

•Utazi leaves

•Edible potash

•Seasoning cubes

•Palm oil

•Onions

•Ugba

•Salt and pepper to taste

Proceedure

•Cut meat in small pieces, season and boil it.

•Allow to cook for about 50 minutes or until the meat is completely tender.

•Slice the onions and utazi leaves, set aside in a plate. Some people add these two during the preparation process while others use them to garnish the dish. However, utazi and onions should be part of the ingredients used in preparing Nkwobi.

•Boil the ugba in small amount of water for about three minutes. This helps to eliminate every possible health threat.

•Dissolve the potash in about 15cl of water and filter into the pot.

•Add palm oil into the pot, stir to make a thick yellow paste; add the meat and the ugba, then stir very well. Add the sliced onions and utazi leaves. Keep some of the onions and utazi leaves for garnishing.

Pineapple juice

For the pineapple juice, use pineapple, sugar syrup, ginger and water.

Use a juice extractor to extract juice from the pineapple; blend ginger with water and add to it.
Boil sugar in water to make sugar syrup, pour it into the extracted juice and ginger.
Add enough water to it. Taste to see if sugar is satisfactory.

Leave to ferment for two hours and serve with Nkwobi in place of beer or wine.