Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, onugbu (bitterleaf) soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Bitterleaf Soup is the most traditional Igbo soup. Prepare it for that Igbo person in your life today. ;) Written recipe. Bitterleaf soup - Ofe onugbu (as the Igbos like to call it) is very delicious and also comes third on my list of Nigerian popular soups.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have onugbu (bitterleaf) soup using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup:
- Take Chicken laps
- Make ready Pomo, dry fish & stockfish
- Take Washed and squeezed bitterleaf
- Make ready Thickener (coco yam preferably)
- Prepare 3 cooking spoons Red Palm Oil
- Prepare Pepper, salt and ground crayfish (to taste)
- Get cubes stock
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Ogiri Igbo (traditional seasoning)
Delicious Bitterleaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) Delicious and Bitter don't sound right together Right? I know but this soup is one that makes So on today's menu we have this delicious soup from eastern Nigeria. It is cooked with a type of vegetable called bitter leaf. like I. Ofe Onugbu is a popular soup in the Eastern region of Nigeria.
Instructions to make Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup:
- Boil the pomo, stock fish and dry fish till properly done
- Wash the chicken and add to the pot of pomo and fish and continue cooking. When the meat is done, add 3 cubes of Maggi/Knorr and cook for 5 minutes.
- Check if bitterleaf is still too bitter, if it is, pls parboil to wash off bitterness.
- Add pepper, ground crayfish, bitter leaves and cook for 10 minutes. Then add the cocoyam paste (in small lumps) and the palm oil
- Cover the pot and leave to cook on high heat till all the cocoyam lumps have dissolved. You can add more water if you feel that the soup is too thick.
- Add salt to taste and the soup is ready. Serve with eba, semo or any other swallowables
It is the Igbo bitterleaf soup and the key ingredient for this soup as the name implies is Onugbu (bitter leaves) with cocoyam used as. Bitter leaf soup is a soup prepared with the freshly squeezed or dried leaves of the ever green plant called Vernonia amygdaline. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the Igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria, and The people of Cameroon. Hence Ofe onugbu is bitterleaf soup. The soup like most soups from the region has a meat / fish broth base and requires thickening which is done by adding pounded cocoyam paste (ede).
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