Recipe: To Try At Home Ogbono, okro n bitter leaf
Recipe: To Try At Home Ogbono, okro n bitter leaf Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Ogbono, okro n bitter leaf. Note you can substitute the ogbono with achi or tomato or egusi even. It is common to see ogbono soup prepared with Ugwu(fluted pumpkin leaves) or Spinach(as in this recipe here), but my grandma always prepare hers' with Bitter leaf, and trust me… it's surprisingly delicious. Ogbono Soup or Draw Soup, is a popular Nigerian soup prepared with Ogbono Seeds.
Same with bitterleaf, most times it ruins the soup for me, but I just might try adding some okra to a little Ogbono this weekend, just to see how it turns out for me.
Ingredients Dry okra Ogbono Smoked fish Crayfish Meat of your choice Bitter leaf Cubes Pepper Onion Salt Red oil You can use stock fish and any other fish or meat you wish to.
Ogbono is botanically called Irvingia gabonensis, a species of African trees that bear edible mango-like fruits.
You can cook Ogbono, okro n bitter leaf using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Ogbono, okro n bitter leaf
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Prepare of Ogbono.
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It’s of Okro, dice.
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Prepare of Bitter leaf (washed).
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Prepare of Meat of choice, i used chicken.
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It’s of Crayfish.
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You need of Palm oil.
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It’s of Stock fish, dry fish, kpomo.
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It’s of Maggi.
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Prepare of Pepper, crushed.
The fruits are very rich in fat and protein.
When ground, ogbono is prepared as soup with other condiments and eaten with fufu or pounded yam.
It is a typical African dish made with ground ogbono seeds but with variation depending on the locality.
Do not cover the Ogbono at anytime during the cooking process.
Ogbono, okro n bitter leaf instructions
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Cook meat, stock fish, kpomo, dry fish till well cooked..
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Then add all ingredients except, okro, ogbono n bitter leaf cook for 20 minutes..
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Then pour in d ogbono, okro n bitter leaf let it cook for 15 minutes. It is ready. Serve with any swallow of choice. 👍.
Make sure you let the Ogbono cook properly or it will have a bitter taste.
This usually covers the leaf bud.
Ogbono leaves bear between five to ten pairs of irregular lateral veins that have the lower ones to protrude out closely to the margin.
Ogbono Okra soup is a popular Nigerian soup made with African Mango seeds (Ogbono).
Ogbono Okra soup is simply Ogbono soup with Okra incorporated.
