Isi Ewu (goat head)
Isi Ewu (goat head)

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, isi ewu (goat head). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

One major difference is that Nkwobi is prepared with cow foot while Isi Ewu which literally means goat head, is prepared with goat head! Isi ewu means goat head (which is the main ingredient) in the Igbo language. It is a spicy delicacy made using goat's head.

Isi Ewu (goat head) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Isi Ewu (goat head) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook isi ewu (goat head) using 9 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Isi Ewu (goat head):
  1. Get 1 goat head
  2. Prepare 15 cl red oil
  3. Make ready 2 teaspoon ground Ehu seeds (nutmeg)
  4. Prepare 1 tablespoon edible potash
  5. Get 4 seasoning cube
  6. Take 2 medium onion bulb
  7. Make ready 10 utazi leaf
  8. Take 2 hababero pepper
  9. Get to taste salt

Its recipes are different across Nigeria. Every tribe may have its special preferences. Isi Ewu or "Goat head" is a popular delicacy in Nigerian cuisine. In this article, you will find a traditional recipe to cook this delicacy.

Instructions to make Isi Ewu (goat head):
  1. Cut the goat head into pieces wash the meat with warm salty water
  2. Slice the onion and set aside
  3. Put the powered potash into a bowl. add a small quantity of water and stir well.. pass it through a fine sieve and set the liquid aside..
  4. Crack and remove the outer shell of the nutmeg then grind
  5. Cook the goat head with the chunks of onion the stock cubes and add little water..
  6. Pour in your onion into the cooking pot
  7. Cut half of the utazi leaf into tiny slices. cut the other half into tiny slices. the first will be used for garnishing while the latter will be added into the palm oil paste.
  8. When the meat is done, remove the chunks of the onion, take out the brain and mash it up till its smooth.
  9. Add salt, stir and cook till all the water dry's off..
  10. Set the meat aside to cool..
  11. Pour the palm oil into the a clean dry pot pour in the potash mixture into the oil.. stir till the oil turns yellow.
  12. Pour in your pepper, mashed brain, nutmeg and the utazi leaf that has been cut into tiny pieces.. stir very well
  13. Add the goat head to the palm oil paste and stir very well..
  14. Put it back in the cooker and heat..
  15. Your isi Ewu is ready garnish with the tiny slices of utazi leaf and onion rings

Isi ewu, goat head in spicy sauce is a delicacy from Igboland of Eastern Nigeria. Similar to Nkwobi (cow foot in spicy sauce) and Homework (goat foot in spicy sauce), Isi ewu is more flavoursome because of the addition of the fatty brain of the goat. I have eaten so much Isi ewu, I could almost identify from which restaurant a plate of Isi ewu was bought in my neck of the woods. Isi ewu (Goat Head) is a Nigerian cuisine (principally an Igbo cuisine). As its famed edible delicacy spread, it became an African cuisine - because it is now eaten and celebrated mostly in West Africa as the traveling penchant of the Igbos manifested in sojourns from Nigeria. . .

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