OjaExpress grocery delivery service offers cultural ingredients

Black History Month is about connecting the past with the present through food. Windy City LIVE spoke with a local delivery service that specializes in providing cultural ingredients.

Get the ingredients to make the recipe below through OjaExpress' website.

OjaExpress Pepper Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

600g Goat Meat With Bones

1 Small Red Onion

1 Small Yellow onion

2-3 Scotch Bonnet Thinly Chopped

2 Tablespoons Pepper Soup Spice

Ehuru (African Calabash Nutmeg)

2 Cloves Garlic

Cameroonian Pepper (Optional)

Pepper Soup Mix (amount varies depending on your tolerance for spicy foods)

1/2 Teaspoon Minced Ginger

1/2 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper

Dry Scent Leaves

2 Knorr Cubes

Salt

Instructions:

1. Wash and chop the goat meat, add the yellow Onions, Knorr cubes and salt to

taste. I personally like to pressure cook my meat in the initial steps to ensure the

softness of the meat and ensuring the flavors mix in the cook. After this process

Transfer the pressure cooked meat to a pot.

2. Add scotch bonnet peppers (1-3 depending on your preference of spiciness), 2

garlic cloves, ginger (thumb sized), Red onion, 2 tablespoons of ground

crayfish (optional if you have a seafood allergy you can remove), 2-3 Ehuru

(African nutmeg)seeds, and cup of water to a blender. Put on liquify until this

admixture is liquid

3. Place the admixture in the pot of meat, and allow to simmer for 20 minutes. Stir

to ensure the mixture with the goat meat.

4. After simmer for 20 mins or so, add 6 cups of water to your pot. Add your pepper

soup mix to the pot, and stir for 2 minutes so all the flavors mix. Allow to simmer

of med/medium-low heat for 20 minutes.

5. Check meat for tenderness, taste for spice and salt level. You can add more

water, if you prefer a more brothy soup. If all those check out, add scent leaves

to the pot. Allow to simmer for 10 additional minutes.

Your pepper soup is ready. Enjoy with a beverage that will dull the spicy flavor

like milk, or malt. But to get the authentic feel, you must enjoy it spicy!