Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu)

Lydia Colon   06/07/2020 21:02

Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu)
Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Bitterleaf soup - Ofe onugbu (as the Igbos like to call it) is very delicious and also comes third on my list of Nigerian popular soups. Bitterleaf Soup is not bitter as implied by the name. Bitterleaf soup is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu) using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu):
  1. Prepare 2 handfuls bitter leaf (you can buy the already washed one)
  2. Make ready 10 cocoyam (ede)
  3. Get Stock fish,crayfish,dry fish
  4. Prepare Meat of choice
  5. Get Palm oil, pepper, seasoning cubes, salt
  6. Take Ogili

Enjoy the recipe and don't forget to check out my website. Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular and delicious Nigerian soup. It is peculiar to the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria. Wash the Bitter leaves with hot water to get rid of as much bitterness as you can.

Steps to make Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu):
  1. Wash stock fish,debone dried fish, pound or blend pepper, crayfish and set aside
  2. Wash bitter leaf thoroughly to remove the bitterness and dirt
  3. Cook cocoyam until it's tender
  4. Cook meat and stock fish with seasoning cubes and a little salt
  5. When meat is done,add your already cleanly washed bitter leave,cocoyam and red oil, mix,cover and allow to cook for 15mins
  6. By now the mixture has blended,add pepper and crayfish, seasoning cubes and almighty ogili, allow to cook for another 15 minutes so that all ingredients can blend well
  7. Turn down heat and serve with Akpu,pounded yam or any other swallow of choice

There should be almost no hint of bitterness left in the leaves after washing. Bitterleaf soup (Ofe onugbu) is one of Nigeria's popular delicacy that's tasty and nutritious. Hence Ofe onugbu is bitterleaf soup. The soup like most soups from the region has a meat / fish broth base and requires thickening which is done by adding pounded cocoyam paste (ede). The peculiar taste of the soup comes from the leaves used and the presence of Ogiri (fermented.

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