How to Prepare Nigerian Post Delivery White soup (Ofe Nsala)

Nsala Soup

Post-Partum hot soup popularly known in English as White soup is a Nigerian delicacy. Here in Nigeria this soup is mostly prepared by the Igbo’s and calabar’s. Ofe Nsala like the Igbo’s call it is a traditional hot soup usually prepared for women who just newly delivered a baby to help them easily expel the after delivery blood to avoid clothing, cramps and also reduce their belly. In this article, you will learn how to prepare, Read on

This type of soup is popularly referred to as white soup because it is one traditional soup prepared in Nigeria without oil. Cooking Nsala soup is very easy, in my place, after its prepared it can go with boiled yam or swallow (utara akpu/loiloi or pounded yam) but I enjoy it more with loiloi.

Note:
This soup can be prepared with any type of meat or fish, the choice is yours.

I enjoy cooking it with seafood such as snail, stock fish and dry fish. For me, what makes Nsala soup is the stock fish.
To start with you need to buy all the necessary ingredients to spice it up. The quantity of ingredients you will use depends on how much soup you intend to prepare.

Ingredients

Stock
Snail, goat meat intestine, Stock fish and Dry fish, Crayfish

Spices
Udah seeds, Ehuru (calabash nutmeg),uziza seeds, uziza leaves or utazzi, onion, pepper, maggi and salt to taste, two slices of yam to serve as thickner.

Steps on How To Prepare Ofe Nsala

Wash the stock fish and soak it with warm water in the same pot you intend to cook with.
Wash the fish with warm water and salt- the salt will help remove sand on it, remove the bones and add it to the stock fish
Break the snails and wash them with alom to remove the slimmy substance, then rinse and put it in the pot

Snail being washed with lime

Wash the intestine thoroughly and add to the snail
Peel the yam and put it in the pot
Wash the crayfish and blend it a bit
Chop the ball of onion to pieces and put it in the pot
Beat the udah a bit in a mortar, remove the seed to avoid its bitter taste and put it in the pot
Pound the uziza seed and ehuru, add it to other ingredients in the pot
Add some more water and put the pot on fire
Allow it to boil for about 30 minutes
Check if the yam has become tender, remove the yam and pound it till it’s without seed.
Put the yam in the pot, break it into 4, cover the pot and allow the yam paste to dissolve
Add the Uziza and pepper leave and allow it to simmer for 10 minutes
Add salt to taste
Add your cubes of maggi and leave it to cook for 5 minutes
Put down you pot, Nsala soup is ready.

Your ofe nsala is now ready to be served with pounded yam, semo or akpu.

Now you know how to prepare your mouth watering post-delivery white soup.

Hope this post was helpful? I would love to hear from you after preparing yours.

You too can do a recipe and send to us,

Happy cooking!

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