Goat Meat Pepper Soup

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Authentic Deltan pepper soup that is a very simple and delicious soup. This soup is one of the easiest Nigerian soup you would ever make. It is flavorful, delicious and very healthy. In fact the spices contain medicinal properties that our ancestors used for various treatments. For some, it is their daily breakfast while for others, it could be an occasional meal. It is also enjoyed by many as a celebratory food after childbirth, at parties, at bars (beer parlors) etc.                    

•   Wash the goat meat. Transfer into a pan  and cook for 10 minutes or when it comes to a boil. Rinse the meat to eliminate that foamy substance. Cover with enough water, add salt, seasoning cube and the aidan fruit and cook for about 30 minutes. 
• Prepare the spices. Remove the seeds from the grains of selim, The seeds are very bitter, so get rid of them.  Remove the shells of the gbafilo and the umilo, they are not edible too.  Grind all the spices  with some crayfish together. 
• Add more water to the meat and scoop off some of the floating oil.
• Add the ground pepper soup spices with ground crayfish, whole crayfish, ground calabash nutmeg,  cayenne pepper, seasoning cubes, salt; cover and cook until done. Add more water as needed. 
• Enjoy with boiled yam and palm oil.

Ingredients 

Goat meat 

1 cup Crayfish 

4 -5 Negro pepper 

1/2 Gbafilo 

1  Umilo 

1 tsp ground calabash nutmeg 

3 seasoning Seasoning cubes 

Cayenne pepper 

                   Salt