Recipe: Delicious Okro Soup

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Recipe: Delicious Okro Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Okro Soup. Okra Soup is one of the quickest and easiest Nigerian soups to prepare. Some argue that a lot of work goes to the cutting of the two vegetables used in preparing this recipe. Yes but once the vegetables are ready; it cooks in no time at all.

Here are a few specific health benefits of okro and how to prepare the soup: Okra or Okro soup is prepared using the edible green seed pods of the okra flowering plant as a primary ingredient.

Okra has a slippery feel when rubbed with the fingers.

The edible green seed pods can also be used in stews and soups.

You can cook Okro Soup using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Okro Soup

  1. Prepare of Beef or chicken.

  2. Prepare of Palmoil.

  3. Prepare of Okro.

  4. It’s of Onions.

  5. Prepare of Stockfish.

  6. It’s of Dry fish.

  7. You need of Crayfish.

  8. It’s of Black pepper.

  9. It’s of Okpeghi (native Maggi).

  10. Prepare leaf of Pumpkin.

  11. You need of Ice fish.

  12. Prepare of Maggi.

  13. It’s of Salt.

In Nigeria okra soup is a delicacy, the plants.

Okro soup (African okra soup) is made with okra vegetables cooked in a delicious mixture of palm oil, shrimps, goat meat, fish and African spices, and simmered to perfection!

This loaded okro soup is a staple in some West African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon.

Okro soup, Okra soup, Lady's finger or gumbo, this soup by any name will taste mouthwateringly delicious.

Okro Soup instructions

  1. Place the beef and stock fish in a clean pot, add water, Maggi and salt.. place on the stove and cook till soft and tender..

  2. Place a dry pot on the stove, add Palm oil, when hot, add the diced okro and onions and stir fry for about 10-15mins..

  3. After stir fried, add the beef and the stock to the okro, and allow to boil on medium heat for about 5minutes..

  4. When boil, add the grounded crayfish, pepper and native Maggi(okpeghi). Add the dry fish, Maggi and salt to taste…

  5. When it begins to boil, add the diced vegetable (pumpkin leaf), and ice fish. Allow to cook for sometime,, you dont need to overcook it..

  6. Now your okro soup is ready, you can serve hot with either Pounded yam or any food of your choice..

It is mucilaginous (slimy in a good way), cheap and is cooked across the length and breadth of Nigeria, from the north where dried okro is used, to the south where it is used fresh.

Okra soup is one of the most popular Nigerian soup, I like this soup because it is very easy to prepare and likely the cheapest soup in Nigeria.

Okro Soup is a delicacy enjoyed by lots of Ghanaians.

It's amazing the amount of energy and vigor one feels after consuming it with Banku.

This post seeks to help you prepare Okro soup to eat with Banku or any other food of choice.