How To Make Seasoned Meat/Fish

Meat(beef), Fish, Ponmo(skin), Saki (tripe), Abodi (cow intestine)... name it, all these are used to make a rich African dish like stew,jollof rice,fried rice,coconut rice and more. For me, I love using fish because I believe it has more nutrients than the rest and apart from eating food, getting nutrients from the food you eat is also important. Let's get started
Ingredients needed for making this tasty dish includes:

• Meat/saki/ponmo/abodi...{ I will use the term-meat for all of them}
• Fish (if you will be cooking it together)
• maggi to taste
• salt to taste
• sliced onion (completely optional)
• thyme to taste

 Lets get started:                                                                             

1. Washing the meat in a bowl of clean lukewarm water (just normal tap water)
2. If you are cooking the fish as well,remove the  intestine of the fish and wash, then gently rub salt and maggi into the fish with the tips of the hand and set aside
3. same goes for the meat,except rubbing in the salt ( you'll know why later)
4. For the meat,rub in maggi and set aside aside in a plastic bowl for like 20-30 minutes. (make sure to cover it with a plastic cover or cling film)
5. Don't worry about any bloody water you'll see even after numerous washing, just drain it.
6. Transfer the meat into a pot (ponmo should be at the bottom of the pot) 
7. Add curry, thyme, maybe onions and a little salt (the meat needed to absorb the maggi,that's why it wasn't rubbed in together with maggi)
8. Add little water( trust me and thank me later) and the salt should be little because some maggi (like maggioniyó) already contain salt.
9. Set your stove to medium heat as high heat could make it burn since there's little water.
10. Cook for 20-30 mins or more as ponmo could be hard to cook 
11. when the meat is nearly done, add the salted fish and leave to cook for 5-10 mins more. (stock would have been produced)
12. Gently take out the fish and set aside 
13. Then drain the meat and stock separately as both can be useful

Now, you have your seasoned meat and fish ready to be eaten or cooked with stew, it can also be deep fried or roasted for jollof rice,fried rice,coconut rice and more.The stock is also useful in making these dishes.

Note: if you're making only the fish,step 7 is included and cook for only 5-10 minutes as fish gets soft easily.