Ji Mmiri Oku is a yam pepper soup specially prepared for new mothers. Making clean the womb and making it contract during pregnancy was believed.

Ingredients
1kg (2.2 lbs) yam (white puna yam)
2 Cameroon peppers
3 cuts dry Mangala fish
1 tablespoon dry cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon uziza seeds (false cubeb)
5 uziza leaves (false cubeb)
5 utazi leaves (gongronema latifolium)
15 pods uda (grains of selim)
½ teaspoon ogiri Igbo (castor seed paste)
Salt (to taste)

Before you cook Ji Mmiri Oku
Blend the cameroon peppers, uda, uziza and dry cayenne pepper with a dry mill.
Soak the fish in cool water till soft, clean and debone.
Rinse and slice the uziza leaves and utazi leaves. Keep separatelly.
Peel and cut the yam tuber into half circle and wash with cool water.

Cooking Directions below
https://nigerianrecipes.net/how-to-cook-ji-mmiri-oku/