Recipe: Perfect Ogbono soup

Recipe: 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 have Ogbono soup using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ogbono soup

1. You need of ogbono.

2. It’s of cksp Palmoil.

3. You need of Salt.

4. Prepare of Maggi.

5. Prepare of wrap Okpei.

6. Prepare of Uziza.

7. It’s of cksp Crayfish.

8. You need of fresh pepper.

9. It’s of Stock fish.

10. It’s of Beef.

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. Blend the ogbono with okpei let it be smooth add a cup of water..

2. Cook the beef and stockfish till is soft..cook with salt,onion and maggi cubes..

3. Bleach the palmoil for 4minutes,pour in the blended ogbono and okpei stir very well for 10minutes..

4. Pour in the boiled beeg and stock fish and stir very well add more more water for the soup allow to boil very well..

5. Blend the crayfish and pepper and add,also salt and maggi cubes..

6. Wash the uziza leaves with salt,and slice pour it inside the soup and boil it for 3more minutes.i enjoyed mine with eba..

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.