Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, bitter leaf soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. How to Cook Bitter Leaf Soup [Video] Ofe Owerri How to Cook Soup with Cocoyam Flour as Thickener [Video] Try the low carb keto friendly Bitterleaf Soup.
Bitter leaf soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Bitter leaf soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have bitter leaf soup using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Get Already washed Bitter leaf 1 full cup
- Prepare Coco yam (enough to thicken your soup)
- Make ready Palm oil half cup
- Prepare 1 cup Crayfish
- Prepare Fresh pepper
- Prepare Dryfish
- Prepare Stock fish
- Prepare Cow tail
- Make ready Cow beef
- Get Salt
- Make ready cubes Maggi
- Prepare Onions
- Make ready Ogiri
By the end of this article you would have learned how I made the delicious looking plate of bitterleaf soup below with cocoa yam and few other. 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 leaf Soup also known as (Ofe Onugbu / Obe efo Elewuro or Miyan shuwaka) is a delicious traditional Nigerian soup.
Instructions to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Wash bitter leaf properly and cut them if too long for you. Set aside
- Wash dry fish, stockfish,cow tail, cow beef properly and set aside.
- Pound onion and crayfish together and also set aside
- Wash and boil your cocoyam until very tender then pound smoothly and also set aside.
- Put the cow tail, stock fish and beef in a pot, add water,salt, 2 maggi cubes and chopped onions and put on fire to boil until tender
- Once they are tender, you add the dry fish and allow for 2 minutes then add your grinded crayfish and pepper, add the grinded cocoyam and palmoil then cover and allow to boil for 5 minutes
- Add the bitter leaf and more maggi and salt(If necessary) and leave for another 10 mins. Your bitter leaf soup is ready to be served.
It is prepared with a bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and although the. Bitter leaf soup is named after the leaf used in preparing it. Of course you don't want to end up with a bitter soup, so wash all traces of bitterness from the leaves. It is more hygienic to wash the leaves. The variations of bitter leaf soup recipe are numerous.
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