Recipe: Delicious Bitterleaf soup

Recipe: Delicious Bitterleaf soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

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] Ofe Owerri How to Cook Soup with Cocoyam Flour as Thickener [Video] Try the low carb keto friendly Bitterleaf Soup.

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, but something in between - a slightly soupy vegetable that is served to accompany starchy food like fufu.

Popularly known as Ofe Onugbu to the eastern parts of Nigeria, it is quite a favorite.

You can have Bitterleaf soup using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bitterleaf soup

1. You need leaf of Bitter.

2. You need of Coco yam.

3. Prepare of Stockfish.

4. You need of Beef.

5. You need of Kpomo.

6. Prepare of Crayfish.

7. It’s of Ogiri local spice.

8. You need of Pepper.

9. It’s of Maggi.

10. You need of Red oil.

And sometimes it feels weird explaining to people that being called bitter-leaf doesn't necessarily make it bitter.

Bitter leaf soup is usually stocked with meat, fish, and cocoyams.

The name is quite misleading; you can tend to think that it is a bitter soup.

One will be seen as a bad cook if there are any traces of bitterness, so therefore; wash the leaf thoroughly and change the water afterward.

Bitterleaf soup instructions

1. Boil the cocoyam till soft. Peel and pound. Wash meat, stockfish, season and boil. Wash the bitterleaf with hot water..

2. Add the cocoyam into the boiling meat stock. Add ogiri, red oil, crayfish and the remaining ingredients. Cover and let it boil till it thickens. Add bitterleaf, Maggi and salt, soup is ready..

Bitter leaf Soup also known as (Ofe Onugbu / Obe efo Elewuro or Miyan shuwaka) is a delicious traditional Nigerian soup.

It is prepared with a bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and although the name suggest that it is a bitter soup, that's not the case.

The bitter leaves used for this soup ,are properly washed and squeezed ,until there is only a slight taste of bitterness left.

Keto Bitterleaf Soup is for you if you need a low carb Nigerian Bitterleaf Soup that does not contain a starchy thickener in your life.

That means no cocoyam, no quaker oats, no flour, nothing starchy at all yet it tastes like Bitterleaf Soup.