GARDEN EGG SAUCE

Garden Egg Sauce is the perfect match for:

Boiled White Yam
Boiled Plantains
Agidi/Eko
Boiled White Rice (when cooked with vegetable oil)
Boiled Potatoes (when cooked with vegetable oil)

Ingredients for Garden Egg Sauce

8 big garden eggs
1 cup palm oil
1 onion
Habanero Pepper & Salt (to taste)
1 small ogiri okpei (iru)
2 small smoked mackerels
Important notes on the ingredients + alternatives

If you don't have a blender: mortar and pestle
Before you cook Garden Egg Sauce

Rinse the garden eggs very well and remove the stalk.
Blend the garden eggs. There are 3 ways to turn the garden eggs into a smooth puree:
With a blender:
Cut the garden eggs into small pieces.
Put in a blender and pour just enough water to help the blades of your blender move.
Blend till smooth.

With a mortar and pestle:

Boil some water in a pot.
Add the garden eggs and continue to cook till the are soft.
Peel the water-proof skin of the garden eggs.
Pound in a mortar till a smooth puree is achieved.
With a sieve:
Cut the garden eggs into small pieces.
Put the Garden Egg Sauce is the perfect match for:

Boiled White Puna Yam (best combo)
Boiled Plantains
Agidi/Eko
Boiled White Rice (when cooked with vegetable oil)
Boiled Potatoes (when cooked with vegetable oil)
Ingredients for Garden Egg Sauce

8 big garden eggs
1 cup palm oil
1 onion
Habanero Pepper & Salt (to taste)
1 small ogiri okpei (iru)
2 small smoked mackerels
Important notes on the ingredients + alternatives

Cooking Directions

Pour the garden egg puree into a clean pot and cook till all or almost all the water dries up. Set it aside. Skip this step if you prepared the garden egg puree using step b above.
Pour the palm oil into a clean dry pot and heat it up. Do not bleach it, you only need to heat till a piece of onion sizzles when added to the hot oil.

When the oil is hot enough, add the onions and fry for about 2 minutes.
Add the garden egg puree and stir for a bit. Cover the pot and cook-fry for some time and stir again.
Repeat step 4 till the small amount of water in the puree dried up. the paol oil will also be separated from the puree.
Add the ogiri okpei and habanero pepper blend then add salt to your taste.
Add the smoked fish, stir, cover and leave to simmer and it's done!

Use the Garden Egg Sauce to eat Boiled White Puna Yam (best combo), Boiled Plantains and Agidi/Eko. If you fried the sauce with vegetable oil, use for Boiled White Rice and Boiled Potatoes.