Fisherman Soup is a very delicious and yummyscious flavorful popular soup in River state in Nigeria, the soup has all kinds of sea creatures that you can imagine. Native Fisherman Soup is spicy warm and aromatic. Historically it is said to be a one pot soup by Fishermen, expected, they’d make a soup of their catch. Every tradition with fishing communities have their versions of Fisherman soup. This Fisherman soup is native to the people of Rivers state in Nigeria This Fisherman Soup can be eaten with different swallows like Pounded yam, Eba, Semo, Fufu etc. It’s a very healthy soup that you can never be disappointed if you try it. If you are a seafood lover then you are going to love this Fisherman Soup recipe. So I will be teaching you today how to make this popular soup, let’s go there!.
The ingredients you will be needing to prepare Fisherman soup
- 1kg of Octopus
- 1kg of Calamari
- 1kg of fresh fish
- 1kg of tiger prawns
- 500g of Crabs
- 1 tin milk cup of Periwinkle
- 8 yellow scent pepper
- 6 Scotch bonnet pepper
- 4 Medium size of onions
- 2 Big size of dry cat fish
- 200g of stock fish
- 2 Cups of cocoyam paste for thickener
- 2 cup spoon of palm oil
- 2 Cup of crayfish
- Seasoning cube to taste
- Salt to taste
- 2 Handful of uziza leave
Preparation of the ingredients
- Wash your fresh fish and cut into the size you prefer and season it and set aside
- Cut your octopus and wash it very well and season it and set aside
- Cut your calamari and Wash it and season it and set aside
- Wash your crabs and season it and set aside
- Wash your tiger prawns and season it and set aside
- Wash the periwinkle, season it and set aside
- Wash the stock fish and soke it with hot water and set aside
- Wash your dry cat fish and debone it and set aside
- Wash 1 medium size onions and diced it and set aside
- Wash all the peppers and the remaining onions and blend them together and set aside
- Wash your cocoyam, boiled it, pound it and set aside
- Blend the crayfish and set aside
- Wash your Uziza leave and cut it and set aside once all the preparations are ready, then let’s start cooking.
Method on How to Prepare Fisherman Soup
- Get a clean pot on fire
- pour your palm oil
- once it’s hot, add the diced onions and allow it to fry a bit
- Pour your blended mixture pepper and onions and allow it to fry for 5 minutes
- Pour 3 Lt of water into the fried sauce
- Add the fresh fish
- Add the calamari
- Add the octopus
- Add the crabs
- Add stock fish and cover it to boil for 3 minutes
- Add your tiger prawns
- Add your periwinkle
- Add the dry fish and allow it to cook for a minute
- Add your thickener cocoyam paste and allow it to boil a minute. This time the soup has become thickened but not too much, if it’s too thickened, you can add additional water. Your have to turn it gently so that your fish will not be smashed
- Add your crayfish powder
- Add your seasoning cube to taste
- Add your salt to taste
- Add your Uziza leave by this time all your house will be full of aromaticness lol. Let it boil for a minute, then turn off the heat and your soup is ready!
Please let me know if you will be trying this recipe. Thanks for your time
