Iya Alli buka stew (Iru stew)

Ingredients 

Red bell peppers 

Shombo (dried long red peppers)

Scotch bonnet (rodo)

Onions

Mixed meat 

Stock cubes 

Dried Cameroon peppers 

Bonga fish (shawa)

Iru (locust beans)

Dried smoke prawns (blended)

Palm oil (needs to be bleached)

Step 1. Soak the dried peppers in hot water, this help to soften them up. Then blend all the peppers and onions, pour in a pot to simmer. 

Step 2. Don't let the peppers blend turn to a thick paste, as we need it thick but not very thick..

Step 3. Pour in the bleached palm oil. 

Step 4. Add in the mixed meat, bonga fish, smoked prawns and Iru. 

Step 5. Stir and allow to simmer on low low heat.. As we need the oil to all come back up to the surface of the stew.. Then add the stock cube (adding the stock cubes too early will give you false taste, because the more the stew simmers the more it's taste intensify). 

I and my family enjoyed the stew with ewedu egusi and pounded yam.. Yum, how will you eat yours????