C'zars Restaurant...HOW TO COOK AFANG SOUP WITH COW TAIL!

HOW TO COOK AFANG SOUP WITH COW TAIL:
INGREDIENTS:

1 cow tail (small sized)
1 kg beef
One medium sized dried stock fish head.
1 small onion to steam meat 
1 tablespoon ground fresh pepper
Salt to taste
4 seasoning cubes
Water, half  the level of the meats in the pot to start with.
3 cups palm oil. You can add more
1 and 1/2 cups ground crayfish
3 medium sized dried catfish
2 large bunches water leaves
Afang leaves, shred and pounded (5 cups)

Before you cook this afang soup, get your ingredients ready because it cooks fast and easy. Boil your cow tail with a pressure cooker and set aside. I didn’t because this meat was soft… I tasted the raw cow tail with a fork and it pierced easily.

Wash beef, cut stock fish, pound afang, wash, shred and boil water leaves, grind crayfish, wash and debone the dried catfish and set them all aside.

TIP: When you cook Nigerian soups with cow leg or cow tail, add some beef (Fleshy meats) to enhance the taste of your pot of soup because cow tail, and cow leg are great to chew or snack on but do not really add taste to soups.

COOKING STEPS:
1. Boil cow tail with the beef, stockfish, onion, salt and 2 seasoning cubes till almost soft until they begin to boil before you add some water halfway to the top of the meats. Check for salt, be careful here because you’ll still add cubes later. Cover and let the pot simmer until meat is almost  cooked. By this time, the stock has reduced drastically because you don’t want a watery pot of soup. If there’s muh stock, drain some and set aside for later just in case.

2. Add palm oil, pepper and leave to boil till oil mixes well and you stop seeing oil on the surface of the pot.
3. Add water leaf, crayfish, catfish and the remaining 2 seasoning cubes. Stir well, check for salt and let it simmer for about 2 minutes .

4. Add the pounded afang leaves, stir, if soup is too dry/thick, you can adjust by adding more beef stock, water or palm oil to desired consistency. Taste again for salt and turn off the heat.

5. Serve with any accompaniment of choice… Boiled rice, eba, semo, fufu, akpu, pounded yam, wheat Etc. For those on a weight loss journey, check the quantity of carbs you serve with this vegetable soup or better still just lick the soup without swallow.

Cow Tail Afang Soup Served With Hot Eba