Recipe: At Home Ogbono soup

Recipe: At Home 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 have Ogbono soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ogbono soup

1. It’s of wrao Okpei.

2. It’s of Ogbno.

3. It’s of Uziza.

4. It’s of Salt.

5. Prepare of Meat.

6. It’s of Onion.

7. It’s of Crayfish.

8. You need of Camerooun pepper.

9. It’s of Palmoil.

10. You need of Maggi.

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. Boil the meat till is soft,Blend ogbono with crayfish.bleach palmoil and fry it in it.pour in the meat with more water and boil until yhe ogbono is well cooked..

2. Remove the bones and dirts from dry fish and put in the soup.put in salt,maggi cubes,okpei,pepper and boil for 10minutes..

3. Cut the uziza leaves and pour in and boil for 2mins..

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.