A spread of Nigerian dishes laid out on a table

Home of Ofe Owerri in Alberta

The food of home,
cooked in Airdrie.

Ofe Owerri. Egusi. Smoky party jollof. Suya off the grill. Recipes carried from Imo State to Alberta, cooked fresh to order by Chef Uchechi.

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Ofe OwerriOur signature

~60 minTypical prep

Airdrie & CalgaryPickup or delivery

A bowl of Ofe Owerri, rich with greens, stockfish and assorted meat

TheSignatureDish

Ofe Owerri · Ofe Owere

The soup they call
the jewel of the
South East.

In Owerri, this is not a weekday soup. It is what you cook for a wedding, for a homecoming, for the visitor you want to impress. Okazi and ugu leaves in a deep palm-oil base, thickened with cocoyam, heavy with stockfish, dried fish and assorted meat.

It is the most expensive soup in the Igbo kitchen because nothing in it is optional. We make it the long way, every time.

Okazi afang leaf Ugu pumpkin leaf Ede cocoyam Okporoko stockfish Uziza Palm oil

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Chef Uchechi, founder of Ala-Owerri Kitchen

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Started in a home kitchen. Still cooked like one.

Chef Uchechi learned to cook in Owerri, in her grandmother's kitchen, where the soup pot was never small and nobody measured anything. She brought those recipes to Alberta in 2020 and started cooking for neighbours who missed home.

Word travelled. Ala-Owerri Kitchen is still a small kitchen: every soup is made from scratch, every spice is ground in-house, and every order is cooked after you place it. That is why we ask for an hour.

Cooking is my love language. When people taste my food, I want them to feel the warmth of a Nigerian home.

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Akụkọ · Stories from Igboland

Where the food comes from

The festivals, ceremonies and customs behind the menu, told for people who have never been to Owerri.

Festival

Iri Ji: the festival of the new yam

Why nobody eats the new yam until the community says so, and why the celebration meal is the plainest one of the year.

7 min read

Ceremony

Ịgba Nkwụ: the wine carrying

The Igbo wedding, in which the bride carries a cup of palm wine through the crowd to find her husband.

8 min read

Custom

Kola nut and palm wine

Why nothing serious in an Igbo house begins until the kola is broken, and why palm wine tells you the time of day.