Recipe: Perfect Native palm oil stew

Native palm oil stew. In today's video, I shared with you how to make a delicious pot of local stew with palm oil and peppers #Palmoilstew #NigerianAfricanfood #Localst. This stew is a traditional dish in Nigeria and it is popularly referred to as "Alapa", it is also highly nutritious because it contains a high level of tomatoes, onions, pepper and also Beta carotene which is contained in the palm oil. Palm oil stew can be eaten with rice(as seen in the picture), plantain, potatoes, yams etc.

I have held this recipe close to myself for a long time. My grandma made this stew as a welcome dish for us whenever we visited her for holidays. Palm oil stew or Buka stew is a very popular stew in Nigeria that is enjoyed by many; most people eat it in local restaurants across Nigeria and its super delicious and know for its intense local taste and flavours. You can have Native palm oil stew using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Native palm oil stew

1. Prepare of Ripe fresh pepper, this us the major ingredient in the stew.
2. You need of Onions.
3. You need of Iru.
4. Prepare of Fresh tomatoes, very little.
5. You need of Blended crayfish.
6. Prepare of Palmoil.
7. It's of Dry fish.
8. It's of Fresh mackerel fish.
9. It's cubes of Knor.
10. Prepare of Benny stock powder.
11. You need to taste of Salt.

This stew can be used for rice, yams, roasted plantain and generally anything you fancy it with, plus it's very easy to prepare. Pour the palm oil into a pan, set on medium heat. Wash your meats, place in a pot on medium heat with water and season with seasoning cubes, salt and diced onions. Palm Butter Soup, Poulet Moambé / Poulet Nyembwe, Moambé Stew, and Okra & Greens are other African recipes that use palm oil or canned Palm Soup base.

Native palm oil stew instructions

1. Roughly blend your fresh pepper, fresh tomatoes and onions then boil till dry.
2. Season your dryfish with Benny and knor cubes and boil with little water to release its flavour.
3. Heat your palm oil for few minutes, not completely bleached so as not to loose the fresh taste of palmoil.
4. Add your sliced onions, crayfish and iru, frying your crayfish and iru helps to intensify their flavour.
5. Add your roughly blended pepper mix and fry till almost dry.
6. Add the boiled fish and stock then fry further till dry.
7. Taste and adjust the taste, then bring down, is not a watery kind of stew, is more like a sauce..
8. Serve with either rice or yam..

Groundnut Stew is a similar recipe made with peanuts (or peanut butter) instead of palm oil and palm nuts (or canned palm soup base). Palm-Oil Chop is another famous West Coast dish This Palm oil based pepper stew also known as obe ata by the originators of this dish is one of my favorite stews from the people of western Nigeria. This Palm oil stew should not be confused with my Iya Iyabo Buka stew because they are very different both in taste and style. A mix of fresh palm oil and some vegetable oil is used for obe ata. At the heart of this chicken, peanut and palm oil stew is the moambe or mwambe sauce.