Recipe: at dinner Efirin(scent leaf) sauce

Recipe: at dinner Efirin(scent leaf) sauce Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Efirin(scent leaf) sauce. African blue basil (Ocimum gratissimum) popularly known as scent leaf is found across Nigeria and West Africa, as well as, tropical regions around the world. Growing up I knew this leaf, with its distinctive aroma and flavour, as Ntong (Efik & Ibibio), but it is also known as Efirin (Yoruba), Nchianwu (Igbo), Daidoya (Hausa) in Nigeria among many other local language names that it is know by. The Efirin scent leaf is known for its characteristic aroma and healing functions, including digestion, treating colds and malaria, treating nausea, healing wounds, preserving food, and so on.

It goes by many names, including African basil, tree basil, clove basil, and wild basil.

Scent leaf is called Efirin by the Yorubas, Nchuanwu by the Igbos and Daidoya by the Hausas.

Scent leaves are beneficial to our health and it doesn't cost much to get.

You can cook Efirin(scent leaf) sauce using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Efirin(scent leaf) sauce

1. It’s leaf of Scent.

2. You need of Bell pepper (tatshe).

3. You need of Tomato.

4. It’s of Bonnet pepper.

5. It’s of Vegetable oil.

6. You need of Onions.

7. It’s cubes of Seasonings.

8. It’s of Garlic flavour (optional).

9. Prepare of Fried fish or chicken.

If you want to make use of scent leaves to cure malaria, use it to make tea and drink it while it's warm.

Scent leaves contain an effective antipyretic substance to reduce fever and cure malaria.

Benefits of Ocimum Gratissimum (Scent or Nchanwu or Efirin Leaf) Researchers show that the nchanwu extracts exhibit antifungal activities on all the fungi tested.

Nchanwu plants are of high importance to the health of individuals and the society at large.

Efirin(scent leaf) sauce step by step

1. Boil fish or chicken until it is well cooked.

2. Put your oil in a well heated pot and fry the boiled fish or chicken.

3. Blend your tomato, Bonnet pepper and bell pepper.

4. Boil the blended pepper and add two teaspoon full of oil and let it boil until you the oil comes to the top.

5. Add your seasonings and garlic powder (optional).

6. Add salt and your fried fish or chicken.

7. And let it cook for 5 minutes.

8. After 5 minutes and your scent leaf and allow it to cook and simmer for 15 minutes..

9. Enjoy it with a well steamed rice😋😋🍚.

Scent leaf has distinctive smell and taste, sometimes unpleasant, fragrant or sweet.

It is called efirin (Yoruba), nchanwu leaf (Igbo), nton (Ibibio) and daidoya (Hausa).

Efirin, daidoya, nchanwu or scent leaf, whose botanical name is Ocimum gratissimum, is a tropical plant species that belongs to the family of Labiatae.

It is usually a homegrown shrub […] Efirin, daidoya, nchanwu or scent leaf, whose botanical name is Ocimum gratissimum, is a tropical plant species that belongs to the family of Labiatae.

It is usually a homegrown shrub used mainly as spices for cooking delicacies due to its unique aromatic taste.