Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, onugbu (bitterleaf) soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bitterleaf Soup Bitterleaf soup is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria. It is native to the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria and most Igbos will tell you that this is their favourite soup in the world. How to Cook Bitter Leaf Soup [Video] The bitter leave soup takes almost the same process as the making of Oha soup. As a matter of fact, one pot of soup could be cooked up to the point of adding the leaves then you divide it to add Oha to one and bitter leaf to the other.
Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have onugbu (bitterleaf) soup using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Onugbu (bitterleaf) soup:
- Get Chicken laps
- Take Pomo, dry fish & stockfish
- Prepare Washed and squeezed bitterleaf
- Take Thickener (coco yam preferably)
- Get 3 cooking spoons Red Palm Oil
- Make ready Pepper, salt and ground crayfish (to taste)
- Make ready cubes stock
- Get 1 teaspoon Ogiri Igbo (traditional seasoning)
The real bitter leaf soup which is ofe onugbu is purely the bitter leaf with other condiments and no other leaf is added to it. Ofe onugbu Anambra cannot be cooked without cocoyam and Ogiri Igbo to spice up the taste. Different Methods of Cooking Bitter Leaf Soup There are different ways in which you can also include bitter leaf in soups such as:- Bitter leaf soup, which is commonly referred to as ofe onugbu by the Igbo people of the eastern part of Nigeria is a rich soup that must be cooked with bitter leaves in order to retain its title. The bitter leaves are what make the soup what it is.
Steps 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
Different Methods of Cooking Bitter Leaf Soup There are different ways in which you can also include bitter leaf in soups such as:- Bitter leaf soup, which is commonly referred to as ofe onugbu by the Igbo people of the eastern part of Nigeria is a rich soup that must be cooked with bitter leaves in order to retain its title. The bitter leaves are what make the soup what it is. Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular Nigerian soup. Bitter leaf Soup is peculiar to the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria. 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 soup.
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