More Cooking Lessons

Shaye's friend, Obed, has kindly agreeded to give me a couple of cooking lessons before I leave Ghana. Today we made Light Soup. It is soooooooo good!!!! Will be going back in a week or so to learn my other favorite dishes--groundnut soup and vegetable stew. There are many of the local dishes here that I never did take a liking to such as fufu, which is a pulped gooey ball of crushed cassava or yam or another favorite kenkey and banku, which are made with fermented maize meal. My favorites so have have been the soups and stews.

Recipie For Light Soup

-Wash four chicken breasts and place in pot
-Add Seasoned Sea Salt and Chilli & Garlic Powder
-Add 1 onion cut up
-Add a little water and place on fire for 10-15 minutes.
-Wash and cut stems off of about 15 Garden Eggs (If you want a thicker soup add more Garden Eggs).
-Clean Kosusuwa and place in pot with Garden Eggs. Place both in the pot with a little water and boil for 15 minutues
-Wash and cut up the following:
-about 15-20 tomatoes
- Bunch of Pepe (Obed said it was similiar to our peas in the States)
- 7 cloves of garlic
- 3 or 4 onions
- 3 pieces of ginger
-Add the above to a pot with a little water and boil for 15 minutes
-Clean 3 pieces of smoked salmon and then place in a seperate pot
-After the Garden Eggs and Kosusuwa mixture have become soft take out of the pot and place in a blender.
-After the Tomatoes, Pepe, cloves, onion and ginger mixture is soft, remove from fire and place that in the blender with the Garden Eggs and Kiosusuwa mixture.
-Blend mixture and pour into a bowl
-Remove the chicken from the fire and add it to the pot that the salmon is in
-Add a chopped onion
-Add a little water
-Add a small can of Gino seasonings
-Cook under high fire for 10 minutes
-Add a little of the mixture that you blended in the blender
-Cook another five minutes
-Add the remainder of blended mixture to pot
-Add water
-Add salt to taste
-Allow to boil for about 20 minutes
-Reduce and simmer for an additional 10-20 minutes,

This soup is like medicine and I always feel so good after I eat it. I have bought it from several vendors and none taste as good as Obed's.

Enjoy!!!!