How to Royal Yummy Ukazi soup

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Ukazi soup. Ukazi soup is totally different from afang. There must be achara for a soup to be called ukazi soup and egusi isn't used as thickener when cooking ukazi soup. I'm from Umuahia and it is our native soup in Ikwuano Okazi Soup (Ukazi Soup) is the Igbo version of the Efik's afang soup.

It is similar to Ofe Owerri, the main difference being that Ofe Owerri is thickened with cocoyam (Owerri court), while Okazi soup is thickened with achi, ukpo or ofo.

Ofe Ukazi "Igbo" or Afang Soup "Efik" is a tasty Nigerian soup which is quite popular in the Eastern & south eastern (Cross river….

The major ingredient which the name of the soup was coined from is the wild spinach leaf (Ukazi/Afang leaf) "Gnetum Africanum" ( View full list of Nigerian leafy vegetables.

You can have Ukazi soup using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ukazi soup

1. You need of Meat.

2. It’s of Stock fish.

3. You need of Dry fish.

4. It’s of Ofor (soup thickener).

5. It’s leaf of Ukazi.

6. You need of Esam.

7. Prepare of Crayfish.

8. You need of Pepper.

9. Prepare of Maggi.

10. Prepare of Salt.

Serve with any swallow of your choice, eg., garri, pounded yam, oatmeal, semovita (semolina) etc.

If you enjoyed my Utazi Soup (Ofe Utazi), you will also enjoy the Ofe Akwu (Palmnut soup), Onugbu soup (Bitterleaf soup) and Ora Soup (Oha Soup).

This is a very traditional African dish which can be easily made from local ingredients.

Meat, Kpomo and Stock Fish A saucer of periwinkles Some salt, knorr and pepper dried crayfish and water Leaves dried * afang or blended okazi Leaves Little Offor to thicken You steam your meat, dryfish,kpomo and Stock fish with onions salt and maggi to taste.

Ukazi soup step by step

1. Stem the meat with Maggi, salt and pepper to make the meat have taste add the stock fish and allow to cook for some time.

2. Add the quatity of water you want in the pot and allow to boil add palm oil, crayfish and pepper cover the pot for it to boil together.

3. Then you add the ofor small depending on the quatity of water in the pot. Dont allow the Ofor to be much for it not to be too thick.

4. Add Maggi and salt with the esam and allow it to boil together before putting the ukazi leaf.

5. After which the soup is ready you can eat with any swallow of your choice.

Then add a little water and cook.

Correct spellings with all the punctuation: Ọkazị or Ụkazị.

Okazi has two Igbo names depending on the Igbo dialect.

It is known as okazi in Enugu and Anambra States and ukazi in Imo and Abia States.

I don't know what it is called in Ebonyi State which is made up of partly old Enugu State and partly old Abia State.