Igyo (Igogo)
Also known as Igyo / Igogo (Kogi Sesame Soup)
Listed as Igyo in Nigeria’s cultural food inventory. The cookable North-Central match is Igogo, the Kogi sesame-seed soup — toasted beniseed in a peppered meat stock, in the same family as Eka / ishwa. This card uses that household method so the name is not an empty entry.
- 65 mintotal time
- 4 to 6serves
- Mediumdifficulty
Ingredients
- 1½ cups of sesame seeds (beniseed), toasted and ground
- Assorted meat or fish
- Palm oil, a cooking spoon
- Pepper, crayfish, onion, seasoning and salt
- A handful of greens
Method
- 01
Cook the protein in a seasoned stock until tender.
- 02
Fry onion in palm oil, add the ground sesame and stir 2 minutes. Loosen with stock, add pepper and crayfish, and simmer until the soup is thick and nutty.
- 03
Return the meat, add greens, taste for salt. Serve with pounded yam, eba or fufu.
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