Obolo Cusuine

Fisher man soup( Usem Irien)

Obolo Cuisine(Dish)

Obolo people have their own favorite food and dishes that depends not only on their customs and tradition but on their type of occupation fishing. Fish is very important to Obolo Man diet since it is one of the only few sources of protein available to to them.Again,the Obolo Man prefers to cook his food with many fish(es) other than buying food from the local food vendors,hawekers or from restaurants.Thus,the most popular soup among the Obolo Nation is the fresh fish soup (Usem Irien) Widely known as "Fisher Man Soup " which is eaten on daily basis

SOUP EXTRAS

There are soups that are usually eaten in addition to the Fisher Man Soup. These include :

1. Oyester Soup (Usem Efie locally call) It is made up of oyester, shrimp,prewinkle,vegetable,onions,pepper,maggi,salt,palm oil.

How to prepare Oyester Soup:

a.  Put the raw oyester into a pot, add water to half the level of the oyester in the pot. Place on fire to boil for minutes till the oyester start opening by itself.

b.  Put it down and let it cool. Open each yester and remove the content.

c.  Put all the content into water in a bowel after removing it and wash.

d.  You have your oyester ready now to prepare oyester soup.

e.  Put shrimp, prewinkle,oyester into a pot add the water to the level you want.

f.  Add onion and other ingredients while you allow it to boil,then put the vegetable slice one when you are about to put the pot if soup down.

g.  Oyster soup is ready to be serve for meal. It usually go well with prepared garri-how prepare G

Oyester Soup with Shrimp

arri. Boil water and put it in a container poor the Garri into the water turn it till it is smooth

2. Periwinkle Soup (Usem Ntutut locally called) It is made with periwinkle as the main ingredient in addition to oyester, vegetable, palm oil and other cooking ingredients as said above.

Popular Breakfast Traditional

The most popular breakfast is plantain with pepper soup  or yam with pepper soup. The plantain or yam pepper soup is cooked with many dired fish, cray fish, onion, pepper, salt, Maggi and mostly secent leaf. The plantain or yam is mostly eaten with palm oil as breakfast.

Lunch

Garri and Soup is a common lunch time food usually eaten with hand well washed