Nigerian Pepper Sauce and Yams

1 Nigerian Yam
2 large onions
1 can tomato paste
6 habanero peppers
1/4 tsp curry
2 TB vegetable oil
2 garlic cloves
Nigerian Red pepper to taste
salt to taste

Peel and chop the yams into 1-1 1/2 inch slices.

Rinse them and put in a pot with enough water to cover them add a little bit of salt to the water.

Boil them for 20-30 minutes until they are soft enough to poke through with a fork. Should be similar to a baked potato consistency.

While they are boiling. Chop the onions in half and then into thin slices. Heat 2 TB oil in a pan and add the onions. Add the curry, red pepper, and salt to taste to the onions. 

Put the habaneros, garlic cloves, and the tomato paste in a food processor/blender until the peppers are a sauce.

Continue to stir the onions and let them sweat or begin to soften. It should take about 5 minutes.

When they are soft add the habanero sauce to it and continue to stir it.

Stir it for 5-10 minutes until the sauce and onions are mixed together and the flavors have a chance to come together.

Serve the onion sauce over the yam slices and I hope you like spicy food because this makes me sweat/cry it's so hot!
Tips- you can always add other veggies to the onion mixture to switch it up

Nigerian Okra Soup

Nigerian Okra Soup

Pictured with Pounded Yam

Ingredients
1 onion
1 TB oil
5 cups water
1 lb meat
1 bag frozen spinach
1 bag frozen whole okra
2 TB tomato paste
1/2 c fish powder or fish stock
optional crayfish or dried shrimp

Shred the whole okra (I used a machine you can cut in small pieces by hand).

Saute onion in 1 TB of oil and 1 tsp red pepper. Add 5 cups water and meat and boil for 25-30 minutes. Add 1 bag of chopped frozen spinach, 1 lb of shredded okra, 2 TB tomato paste, fish stock from dried fish (I used fish powder because it's cheaper 1/2 c).

Add the frozen spinach stir and then add the shredded okra and let boil for another 15-20 minutes until the okra makes the soup kind of slimy... It should be a very thick consistency but the okra gives it a slim texture.Add red pepper and salt to taste.

My Nigerian boyfriend likes it super spicy so I always add more of his red pepper as I cook. This time I used 1lb of beef stew meat. Typically they use a variety of goat meat, tripe, seafood etc...