Recipe: Appetizing Ogbono Soup

Recipe: Appetizing 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 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ogbono Soup

1. You need of Stock.

2. It’s of Smoked catfish.

3. You need of Stock fish.

4. It’s of Crayfish.

5. You need of Grounded Peppers.

6. Prepare of Ginger garlic paste.

7. You need of Locust bean powder.

8. It’s of Soup.

9. You need of Grounded ogbono.

10. Prepare of Palm oil.

11. You need of Potash (toka) (optional).

12. Prepare cubes of Seasoning.

13. Prepare of Wash and dried bitter-leaf/Fresh.

14. You need to taste of Salt.

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 instructions

1. Wash and prepare fish. Add to pot. Add grounded peppers with ginger garlic paste. Add locust bean powder. Boil until tender..

2. Add the toka and boil for another 5 minutes. Mix equal amount of ogbono powder with palm oil and make into a paste.

3. Add paste to stock. Stir occasionally until very drawy. Crumble some dried bitter leaf into the soup and allow to simmer on low heat for about 7 to 10 minutes. When you off the fire you can add the seasoning cubes and salt..

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.