Guess you never knew you could actually make Fried Rice With OFADA, This stir-fried ofada stew recipe is what you need to make your favorite sauce.

Ofada stew recipe or ofada sauce is a rich peppery sauce made with combinations of pepper, assorted meat, and locust beans. This simple stew is usually paired with ofada rice or unpolished brown rice (ofada rice and stew). Ofada rice is a sweet and tasty delicacy with few traditional flavors; ofada stew is the best stew serve with rice, however, yam, plantain and another rice dish like basmati go well with this sauce as well.

Ofada stew is also known as ayamase stew or designer stew; it can be prepared with green bell pepper, with red bell pepper or even with the combinations of both.

Bleached palm oil is also an important ingredient for making ofada stew as it is used for frying of the veggies and it adds some nice fragrance to the sauce as well. Locust beans or Iru is a type of fermented spice, it is commonly used as a taste enhancer in soups, sauces, and stews and this adds some pleasant aroma to ofada stew.

Ofada Stew ingredients

1. (5 large green bell peppers (green Tatashe)
2. 4 large red bell peppers (optional)
3. 2 medium red onions, thinly chopped
4. 3 Scotch bonnet peppers (Ata Rodo)
5. 1 kilo of assorted meat (goat meat, beef shaki, and Ponmo
6. boiled eggs, as desired, optional
7. 3 Tablespoons locust beans (Iru)
8. 1½ cups palm oil
9. 1 tablespoon of ground crayfish
10. 1 cup of stockfish or dried/smoked fish
11. 3 seasoning cubes (Maggi)
12. Salt to taste

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