Recipe: Appetizing Bitter Leaf Soup

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Recipe: Appetizing Bitter Leaf Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Bitter Leaf Soup. Make sure that the bitter leaves are well washed, such that there is no trace of bitterness left. If not, wash and squeeze it more. Popularly known as Ofe Onugbu to the eastern parts of Nigeria, it is quite a favorite.

This dish is neither a soup nor sauce, but something in between - a slightly soupy vegetable that is served to accompany starchy food like fufu.

Then add the bitter leaves, stir, taste, add more salt if necessary then cook for three to two minutes and you are done with the making of Nigerian Bitter Leaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu).

Either of these five can go along with it - Eba, Fufu, Semo, Wheat or pounded yam.

You can cook Bitter Leaf Soup using 45 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bitter Leaf Soup

It’s of Goat meat.
It’s of Smoked 🎏 fish.
Prepare of Intestine.
Prepare of Red pepper.
It’s of Kpomo.
Prepare leaf of Bitter.
Prepare of Ogiri.
Prepare of Dried fish.
It’s of Stock fish.
You need of Red oil.
You need of Maggi.
It’s of Salt.
You need of Onion.
You need of Grinded Coco yam powder.
You need of Crayfish.
You need of Goat meat.
It’s of Smoked 🎏 fish.
Prepare of Intestine.
You need of Red pepper.
Prepare of Kpomo.
It’s leaf of Bitter.
Prepare of Ogiri.
It’s of Dried fish.
Prepare of Stock fish.
It’s of Red oil.
You need of Maggi.
Prepare of Salt.
It’s of Onion.
It’s of Grinded Coco yam powder.
You need of Crayfish.
Prepare of Goat meat.
Prepare of Smoked 🎏 fish.
It’s of Intestine.
It’s of Red pepper.
You need of Kpomo.
It’s leaf of Bitter.
You need of Ogiri.
You need of Dried fish.
It’s of Stock fish.
It’s of Red oil.
Prepare of Maggi.
It’s of Salt.
You need of Onion.
It’s of Grinded Coco yam powder.
It’s of Crayfish.

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Bitter leaf Soup also known as (Ofe Onugbu / Obe efo Elewuro or Miyan shuwaka) is a delicious traditional Nigerian soup.

It is prepared with a bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and although the name suggest that it is a bitter soup, that's not the case.

The bitter leaves used for this soup ,are properly washed and squeezed ,until there is only a slight taste of bitterness left.

Bitter Leaf Soup step by step

Wash the meats,kpomo,the intestines,the dried fish,stock fish and boil with little quantity of water.Boil for like 20mins..
Add 1 cooking spoon of red oil,add your pepper mixed with ogiri,add your Crayfish,mix the powered cocoyam with warm water and mix well,then you pour it in the meat stock.
Allow it to thicken for 10 mins,then add your bitterleaf,salt and Maggi and for some minutes..
Wash the meats,kpomo,the intestines,the dried fish,stock fish and boil with little quantity of water.Boil for like 20mins..
Add 1 cooking spoon of red oil,add your pepper mixed with ogiri,add your Crayfish,mix the powered cocoyam with warm water and mix well,then you pour it in the meat stock.
Allow it to thicken for 10 mins,then add your bitterleaf,salt and Maggi and for some minutes..
Wash the meats,kpomo,the intestines,the dried fish,stock fish and boil with little quantity of water.Boil for like 20mins..
Add 1 cooking spoon of red oil,add your pepper mixed with ogiri,add your Crayfish,mix the powered cocoyam with warm water and mix well,then you pour it in the meat stock.
Allow it to thicken for 10 mins,then add your bitterleaf,salt and Maggi and for some minutes..

Bitter leaf soup can be enjoyed as an accompaniment to pounded yam, amala, plantain, fufu, and so forth.

It can also be served on rice or eaten with a side of boiled plantain. [READ]: How Bitter Leaf Can Improve Your Health.

Combine the ingredients in Part A in a blender and pulse to a coarse texture.

Bitter leaf soup, also called onugbu, is a Nigerian specialty.

The bitter leaf, or onugbu, is commonly found around homes in southeastern Nigeria.