Easiest Way to Autumn Perfect ogbono soup

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Easiest Way to Autumn Perfect ogbono soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

ogbono soup. Ogbono Soup also known as Draw Soup makes eating Fufu Recipes so easy because of its slimy nature which helps the lumps of fufu slide down. If your kids do not like Okra Soup because of the chunks of Okra, then try Ogbono Soup, they will surely love it. Ogbono soup is a delectable Nigerian concoction soup and it's super easy to prepare.

Heat palm oil in a saucepan and dissolve ground ogbono seeds.

Season water in a large pot and add ground peppers, crayfish, and cooked meats.

Stir the ogbono oil mixture into the soup and simmer it until it becomes thick and stretchy.

You can cook ogbono soup using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of ogbono soup

  1. It’s of crayfish (dried&crushed).

  2. You need of fresh water fish of your choice.

  3. You need of beef (chopped).

  4. Prepare of dawa-dawa (nigerian seasoning).

  5. Prepare of palm oil.

  6. Prepare of ogbono(wild-mango seeds).

  7. Prepare of pumpkin leaves (chopped).

It is also known as Apon and is a variety of draw soup.

For the uninitiated, draw soup is a term denoted to a variety of soups from southeastern and southwestern parts of Nigeria and is characterized by the thick viscosity of the broth.

These are the ingredients I used to cook the big pot of Ogbono Soup in the video below.

Ogbono Soup or Draw Soup, is a popular Nigerian soup recipe made with Ogbono Seeds(wild African bush mango seeds).

ogbono soup step by step

  1. mix ogbono crushed seeds with the palmoil in a bowl till there are no seeds and set aside..

  2. season meat and chopped fresh fish with seasoning cubes of your choice. bring to boil till completely cooked.

  3. add the mixture to the boiling meat and fish and stirr… it then resembles the outcome of blended okra…

  4. add in crushed crayfish and dawa-dawa… and keep stirring.

  5. finally add chopped pumpkin leaves… dont stir.. cover put and allow to steam for 5 mins… then finally stir.

  6. serve with akpu, eba, pounded yam or any other swallows available.

This is one of the first soup, after Okra soup, given to kids when trying to introduce them to Nigerian soups.

Ogbono soup has a mucilaginous (slimy) texture, similar to okra soup.

Ogbono soup reminds me of my mother and how she used to make it with all sorts of vegetables.

I have a memory of her bending over a pot of ogbono soup, trying to make sure it tasted right.

One thing though, once you make a decision to cook this soup, one has to becareful as over seasoning can easily occur.