Recipe: Yummy Ofada rice and sauce

Ofada rice and sauce. Ofada Rice and sauce is a Nigerian favourite. The combination of meats and peppers adds complex flavours that keeps everyone wanting more. The best part about this ofada rice recipe is that is easy to prepare and will have you enjoying the meal in no time at all.

Ofada rice is a name for heritage varieties of rice grown in south-west Nigeria. It is used in a variety of dishes. Ofada rices are mostly blends, and some of the rice varieties in the blends are not indigenous to Africa; however, they usually also contain African rice. You can have Ofada rice and sauce using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ofada rice and sauce

1. You need of Ofada rice.
2. You need of Green pepper.
3. Prepare of Tatashe.
4. It's of Tarugu.
5. Prepare of Shobo.
6. It's of Onions.
7. Prepare of Locust beans.
8. Prepare of Boiled eggs.
9. It's of Palm oil.
10. You need of Crayfish.
11. It's cubes of Seasoning.
12. Prepare of Meat.
13. It's of Pomo.
14. It's of Stock fish.
15. Prepare of Offal.

Ofada sauce is a locally made Yoruba (Ijebu) stew for ofada rice. I must confess that the demand for this recipe in the last few months is over the roof. For long I wondered why people were so crazy about ofada rice and stew. Perhaps it was just the iru (locust beans) that makes the difference or the.

Ofada rice and sauce instructions

1. To cook our ofada rice but your pot on fire with water..
2. Pick your rice for any dirty particles wash and add to the boiling water on fire..
3. Allow to per boil then wash it severely for the mould in it to goes off..
4. Put ur pot back with the quantity of water that will cook the rice, when done pack it into your warmers..
5. For the sauce.
6. Wash all ur vegetables and blend them..
7. Put ur pot on fire allow to dry off then add in your palm oil and cover it to allow it to bleach when done add in your locust beans and fry then turn in your blended vegetable inside to fry also..
8. When almost done add in ur crayfish meat, offal, pomo,stock fish and seasoning cubes, add in ur peeled boiled eggs and taste for for your seasoning if ok allow to simmer for few minutes..
9. And then your ofada sauce is ready..
10. Serve it with ofada rice..

Ofada rice is better eaten with a sauce. The most delicious sauce for the Ofada rice is known as Ayamase (also known as designer stew). I marveled the first time I saw someone preparing the sauce because until then, I never heard of it. The Ofada rice sauce is a tasty local sauce usually served alongside the rice. Ofada rice is a popular Nigerian rice variety.