Recipe: Eating on a Dime Ofada Sauce

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Recipe: Eating on a Dime Ofada Sauce Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Ofada Sauce. Ofada sauce is a locally made Yoruba (Ijebu) stew for ofada rice. I must confess that the demand for this recipe in the last few months is over the roof. So many people wanted to learn how to make ofada stew.

There are two kinds of Ofada sauce, the one prepared with green bell peppers called Ayamase and the other prepared with red bell peppers called Obe Atadindin.

This ofada stew/ofada sauce recipe features a stew that originates from the Western part of Nigeria and is commonly eaten with a locally grown rice called ofada rice.

The story of Ofada rice and stew is one that somewhat inspires me.

You can cook Ofada Sauce using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ofada Sauce

  1. You need of Red pepper.

  2. You need of Shombo.

  3. It’s of Tatashe.

  4. You need of Onions.

  5. You need of Iru (locust beans).

  6. Prepare of Palm oil.

  7. You need of Dry fish.

  8. Prepare of Goat meat.

  9. You need of Pomo.

  10. It’s cubes of Seasoning.

  11. It’s of Salt.

It is actually a culinary example of a grass to grace/ cinderella story; one that is similar to the story of.

Ofada rice is better eaten with a sauce.

The most delicious sauce for the Ofada rice is known as Ayamase (also known as designer stew).

I marveled the first time I saw someone preparing the sauce because until then, I never heard of it.

Ofada Sauce instructions

  1. Blend your pepper, onion, shonbo, tatashe, together (rough) P.S i add my meat stock to blend it.

  2. Boil your meat and pomo together.

  3. Put your dry pan on fire add your red oil to bleach, afterwards add your iru den add your blended pepper and dry fish allow it to cook for 25 mins then add your meat and pomo and stir for another 10 to 15 mins.

  4. Ready ready ready.

This stew is commonly eaten with Ofada rice ( unpolished brown rice) and that is where it got the name Ofada.

It is one of those delicious native savoury dishes that pack a punch.

It is flavoured with smoked dried fish, fermented locust beans (iru) among others.

The Ofada rice sauce is a tasty local sauce usually served alongside the rice.

Now, there are two kinds of Ofada Stew, one is made with Green Bell Peppers while the other is made with Red Bell Peppers.