Nigerian Pepper Soup with Shredded Turkey
Come Dine With Me South Africa S8: Ep8 Oyedeji's recipes
Oyedeji (Deji) Amao
Ingredients
- 2kg Turkey pieces (preferably drumsticks)
- 1 Calabash nutmeg
- 40g Basil
- Plenty Black pepper corns
- 2 tablespoons Pepper soup spices (ginger, cumin, fennel and cayenne I think)
- Seasoning (Knorr chicken cubes)
- 1 Large onion
- Garlic
- Salt
- 1 (Optional) Habanero
Method
- Wash, cut turkey drumsticks and put in a pressure cooker
- Add cut onion, garlic, salt and seasoning and cook for 1 hour
- Strain the turkey stock into a put-on low heat
- Burn the calabash nutmeg on open flame for 50 seconds and pound with a pestle in a mortar and had to the turkey stock
- Add the pepper soup spices to the turkey stock
- Debone and shred the turnkey and add to turkey stock
- Wash, chop basil and add basil to turkey stock
- Let it simmer on low heat
Notes
This will be reheated when guest arrive. I made habanero optional. I’ll add it to the pressure-cooking process if I determine the chili levels of my guest