Nigerian Chicken Peppersoup

Nigerian Chicken pepper soup is a delightfully ,intensely flavored soup that is
served throughout Nigeria and other neighboring West African countries.

Servings:

Author:

Course:

Main Course Main Dish

Cuisine:

Nigerian

Keywords:

chicken pepper soup

🧂 Ingredients

1500g large whole Chicken (cleaned and cut up.)
1 Large Onion (finely chopped)
1 Tbsp chicken bouillon powder (or 2 seasoning cubes)
⅛ Tsp Salt (or to taste)
½ to 1 Tbsp Cameroon Pepper (you can sub with 2 habaneropeppers)
1 Tbsp Crayfish (optional)
1 Tbsp Pepper-soup spice
2 Tbsp Palm oil (optional)
2-3 Scent leaves (nchianwu)

Instructions

1 Place the washed and cut up chicken in a pot.
2 Add about 6cups of water, the chopped onions, salt and 2 seasoning cubes and
bring to a boil.
3 When the contents in the pot begins to boil, add the pepper soup spice(Pepper
soup spice is a special blend of spices which include Ehuru (calabash nutmeg),
uziza seeds and Uda (negro Pepper) this spice mix can be bought in the African
stores.
4 Cook till chicken meat is tender then lower heat.
5 Add the chopped scent leaves and palm oil. Allow to simmer for about a minute,
then turn off the heat
6 Your Chicken Pepper Soup is ready. Enjoy!!!
7 You can eat it on its own, with some hot white rice, boiled unripe plantains or
boiled yam.