Recipe: Yummy Palm Oil stew

Palm Oil stew. This stew is a traditional dish in Nigeria and it is popularly referred to as "Alapa", it is also highly nutritious because it contains a high level of tomatoes, onions, pepper and also Beta carotene which is contained in the palm oil. Palm oil stew can be eaten with rice (as seen in the picture), plantain, potatoes, yams etc. Alapa is simply Palm Oil Stew.

Pour the palm oil into a pan, set on medium heat. Try not to leave the crayfish for too long to avoid it burning or it'll give your stew a bitter taste… Palm oil Stew is similar to the Nigerian Tomato Stew, the only differences are replacing vegetable oil with palm oil and the use of local spices. In this stew, you are pushing the umami flavour to the forefront hence the addition of iru, dawadawa or okpei, though it is somewhat optional. You can have Palm Oil stew using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Palm Oil stew

1. Prepare of Palm oil.
2. Prepare of Goat meat.
3. Prepare of Crayfish.
4. It's of Pepper.
5. It's of Onion.
6. You need of Fresh tomatoes.
7. Prepare of Curry.
8. It's of Giniger/garlic.
9. It's cubes of Knorr.
10. It's to taste of Salt.

Cut, season and boil chicken with some onions, salt and seasonings. Set aside when done and remember to leave some stock for the stew. Pour the red palm oil in a pot and put on heat. Add a handful of onions once the oil is heated, like you do when using vegetable oil.

Palm Oil stew instructions

1. After steaming the meat with spice to give it taste.
2. You heat up the oil not to beach it add the slice onions and fresh tomatoes fry it a bit add your crayfish, pepper and spices allow it to cook for some time.
3. Then you put the meat, knorr and salt to taste once stir it together once it boils very well you bring it down.
4. You can eat with rice or boiled yam.

A mix of fresh palm oil and some vegetable oil is used for obe ata whereas bleached palm oil is used in my Iya IYABO copycat Buka stew. Both stews taste amazing but serve mostly different purposes as I was told. Obe ata is mostly used in combination with the Yoruba style okro Aka plain okro I love so much or Ewedu and gbegiri. Hi 👋 To make this recipe these are the ingredients you'll need : palm oil , any meat of your choice, tomato plum , red long pepper, scotch bonnets, onions,. Take a cooking pot and pour some palm oil and another oil of your choice into it. there's no precise quantity to measure because the amount of oil depends directly on the quantity of meat you have taken for the stew Put the meat into the pot and roast in the boiling oil so that it's evenly golden-brow on all sides.