Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Edikaikong Soup

Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Edikaikong Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Edikaikong Soup. The Nigerian Edikang Ikong soup or simply Vegetable Soup is native to the Efiks, people from Akwa Ibom and Cross River states of Nigeria. It is a general notion that the Edikang Ikong soup is very nutritious and this is very much so. Prepared with a generous quantity of pumpkin leaves.

There are lots of variations for the soup.

For example, some people choose to add onions, while others choose to omit them.

Almost all versions include pumpkin leaves, water leaves, and a combination of meat and seafood.

You can have Edikaikong Soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Edikaikong Soup

1. Prepare of Meat.

2. Prepare of Kpomo.

3. You need of Stockfish.

4. It’s of Dried fish.

5. Prepare of Crayfish.

6. Prepare of Ugu.

7. It’s leaf of Water.

8. Prepare of Palm oil.

9. Prepare of Onion.

10. It’s of Uziza seed (bended).

11. It’s of Yellow pepper.

12. You need of Salt.

13. Prepare of Seasoning cube (Maggi naija pot).

You can use more or less of a.

This is the recipe for that authentic Edikang Ikong, the one prepared with water leaves and ugu (Nigerian pumpkin leaves).

I already have a recipe for alternative vegetable Soup for those that cannot buy ugu and water leaves where they live a.k.a. those that live outside Nigeria.

Click here for the recipe for that one.

Edikaikong Soup instructions

1. Wash your meat and kpomo and season with salt, onion, pepper, seasoning cube and the blended uziza seed,cook with little water till tender..

2. Add your crayfish,stockfish,and dried fish, then cover and allow to cook for while..

3. In a separate pot, pour the palm oil, add a little onion, then pour your water leaf and stir fry for a while before adding your ugu leave.

4. Finally add your pre boiled meat, kpomo and the rest. Fully incorporate, allow to cook for 5mins and whoop your soup is ready.

5. Serve with Eba, fufu, semo or wheat..

If you can buy ugu and water leaves, continue reading for the recipe for.

Edikaikong (Edikainkong) is a Nigerian soup made of leafy vegetables.

This edikaikong recipe is easy and delicious.

It is native to Calabar people and typically made with two types of vegetable namely ugwu (pumpkin) and water leaves.

Edikaikong soup has over the years topped the list of Nigerian popular soups because of its nutritional value and ease of preparation.