How to Prepare Nigerian Stew

Things to buy:

Tinned tomatoes 
Tomatoes(4 pieces)
Pepper(3)--depends on how spicy you want it
Onion(2)
Maggi cube--3 cubes
Meat/Chicken/fish etc
Oil/Palm Oil

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How to prepare:

PDP style:

Put pan on fire for fifteen minutes. When you see real smoke emanating from the pan then pour a generous amount of oil in it. Allow the oil to fry for ten minutes.

Oh, don't forget to blend your pepper and tomatoes and onions together. Bring out the blender, no need to rinse it, just put the pepper, tomatoes and onions in and blend.

Reduce the fire by removing some firewood
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Pour your blended tomatoes, onion and pepper in the oil. Leave that for another twenty minutes. While you're doing all these make sure your meat is boiling.

Now remove the meat from the international pot and place it in the local pot where the stew has been cooking. Allow to cook until the pieces of meat soak the stew.

Then, if you want it to kick, add some purée on top and allow to cook for another five minutes.

And. Your. Stew. Is. Ready.

You can eat it with white rice, cassava bread and yam.

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APC style:

Already you should buy the pepper and tomatoes and onion blended in the market. You should know you can do this in the market. You don't have to see the pepper, tomatoes and onions. All is well that is alubasa and tomatoes.

You just want to eat fresh stew.

I'm guessing that you have the oil frying already. Ok. Me, I like locust beans and that's the first thing that goes in. Fry it for a while.

Next, add your blended pepper in. It must bubble. Quality tomatoes and alabusa always display their age in the pot.

Allow that to boil for fifty minutes. Then put your raw meat inside, that is, raw meat. Then cover it, allow it to cook for another one hour.

There is no need to reduce the fire. As a matter of fact, when it burns, it is the sweetest.

Stew is ready.

You can eat with jellof rice, fried rice and uncle Ben's rice.