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Pepper Soup Spice

Nigeria

What we know so far

Pepper soup spice is the blend that makes every Nigerian pepper soup, whether goat, catfish, chicken or yam, taste like pepper soup: roasted calabash nutmeg (ehuru), uda pods (grains of Selim), uziza or alligator pepper seeds, sometimes cloves and aniseed, ground together to a dark, warm, medicinal powder. Market women sell it ready-ground in small sachets; grinding your own gives a fresher, stronger blend. A teaspoon goes into a pot of broth with plenty of chilli.

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Pepper Soup Spice

Nigeria

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

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