How to prepare a delicious pot of Nkwobi

Nkwobi is a cow leg delicacy more popular among the Igbo speaking community, in the Eastern part of Nigeria.

Ingredients....
Cow leg(cut to small/medium pieces),
potash,
ehuru/efuru,
ugba,
utazi,
uziza,
bitter leaf
potash,
palmoil,
peppersoup spice,
fresh or dry pepper,
crayfish,
Onions,
Maggi and salt to taste.‎​


Boil d cow leg in a pot of water till its soft n tender, while its boiling, grind your crayfish, efuru(its a seed, so use abt 4 or 5) fresh pepper. Set dat aside. Then depending on d quantity of your nkwobi dissolve some potash/akanwu(abt 2 spoons) in 4spoons of water. If its difficult to dissolve, blend.
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Then take a bowl for d paste mixture.......pour in your blended crayfish, pepper n ehuru mixture, together with your dissolved potash and mix. Then take your bottle of palm oil n start pouring slowly until you achieve d desired thickness in d paste. Then add your salt, maggi, peppersoup spices to the paste.

When your meat is done boiling, turn off the heat and pour out all d water, then pour your paste in n mix. Decorate with green vegetable or bitter leaf and onions. Now it’s ready to serve. Serve with cold palm wine, malt, gulder or star.