Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bitter leaf soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bitter leaf soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Bitter leaf soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
Bitter Leaf soup is a robust West African soup, predominant in countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. This dish is neither a soup nor sauce. Bitter leaf soup, like most other Nigerian soups is named after the particular leaf which is used in preparing it. But of course, you need to wash this leaf to remove at least ninety percent of the bitter.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bitter leaf soup using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Make ready 1 and half kg of goat meat
- Make ready 2 hand full of washed bitter leaf
- Prepare 1 medium size, stock fish head
- Take 5 cups raw banga
- Get 1 cooking spoon of grounded achi
- Get 1 large dry fish
- Make ready 1 wrap of ogiri
- Make ready Dry pepper
- Get 2 knorr seasoning cube
- Get 1 cooking spoon of blended crayfish
- Make ready to taste Salt
A lot of non-Igbos shy away from bitter leaf soup (Well, I did for the longest time) because they think that, true to it's name, it is a very. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the Igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria, and The people of Cameroon. Called Ofé Onugbo by the Igbos, the Cameroonians call it Ndolé. Bitter Leaf soup is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria.
Steps to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Season your meat with salt and knorr, then boil till tender, throw in stock fish half way boiling
- Biol your banga, then extract the juice
- Boil your bitter leaf to remove the remaining traces of bitterness
- Pour your banga juice into the boiled meat, then cook for about five minutes
- Add dry pepper and washed dry fish and cook for about ten minutes
- Add achi cook for few minutes and add the washed bitter leaf and allow to thicken further
- Add ogiri and crayfish
- Taste and adjust the taste with salt and stock cube
- Allow to thicken to your desired consistency then bring down
- Serve with any swallow of your choice.
Called Ofé Onugbo by the Igbos, the Cameroonians call it Ndolé. Bitter Leaf soup is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria. Bitter leaf is one of the widely used cooking vegetables in Nigeria known as onugbu by the Igbo's and scientifically called Vernonia. Bitter leaf Soup also known as (Ofe Onugbu / Obe efo Elewuro or Miyan shuwaka) is a delicious traditional Nigerian soup. See recipes for Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu) too.
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