Nkwobi
Nkwobi is a delicious dish of well-cooked, tender cow leg mixed with thickened palm oil flavoured with spices and peppers.
Equipment
- 1 Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 kg Cow leg
- 2 Onions
- 2 Bouillon cubes
- ½ cup Palm oil
- 1 tablespoon Bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Ground pepper/pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons Ground crayfish
- 4 Roasted Ehu (Calabash nutmeg)
- Salt to taste
- ½ cup Ugba (African oil seed)
- Rocket a handful
Instructions
- Wash the cow leg and pour into a pressure cooker with three cups of water. Slice one onion and add into the pressure cooker. Add the bouillon cubes with some salt.
- Leave to cook for 20 mins after the pot comes up to pressure, then remove from heat. If you’re cooking in a regular pot, it could take between 90mins – 2hrs.
- Separate the meat from the leftover cooking liquid.
- Ground the calabash nutmeg in a mortar or coffee grind. Slice the remaining onion and keep aside. Wash the sliced ugba and keep aside.
- Mix the bicarbonate of soda with ¼ a cup of water. Then mix into the oil and stir for some time to emulsify. You will get light orange, thick creamy sauce at the end.
- Add the pepper, crayfish, calabash nutmeg, and ugba into this mixture. Add some salt to taste and mix properly.
- Add the cooked cow leg and stir in to coat with the oil.
- Serve in a bowl and garnish with the onion rings.