Recipe: Yummy Ogbono soup

Recipe: Yummy 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 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ogbono soup

1. It’s of Ogbono (grinded).

2. You need of Crayfish (pounded).

3. Prepare of Black pepper (Ghana pepper).

4. It’s of Meat.

5. Prepare of Stockfish.

6. It’s of Pomo.

7. Prepare of Fresh okro(chopped).

8. You need of Opehe(daddawa in hausa,iru in Yoruba,locust bean).

9. You need of Ugu leaf(chopped).

10. You need of Oziza seed(little quantity grinded).

11. You need of Driedfish.

12. It’s of Palmoil.

13. Prepare cube of Knorr.

14. Prepare of Salt.

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 instructions

1. Wash ur meat and put in a pot add onion, seasoning,salt to taste. Bring to boil n add ur pomo, stock fish, dried fish and black pepper.cover n cook till tender.

2. Pack everything from the pot leaving only d stock,u can add water depending on d quantity of ur ogbono.

3. Add ur ogbono n stir well,add palm oil n allow to cook well.

4. Add ur meat,fish pomo, stock fish,fresh okro, crayfish and allow to cook well.

5. Add ur ugu leaf n cook for 2 more min..

6. Serve with any swallow of ur choice. Enjoy.

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.