Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, bitter leaf soup(ofe onugbu). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
In this video, I am showing you how to make Bitter-leaf soup, a dish commonly eaten by those from the Eastern part go Nigeria. 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.
Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bitter leaf soup(ofe onugbu) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu):
- Prepare 1 kg beef
- Take Half kg goat meat
- Get 3 knorr cubes
- Get 4 cups raw palm nut
- Prepare 1 large dry fish
- Prepare 1 cup shredded stock
- Prepare 1 wrap ogiri
- Take 1 tablespoon grounded Cameron pepper
- Get 2 tablespoons grounded crayfish
- Make ready 2 heap tablespoons of ground achi
- Prepare 2 hand full of washed bitter leaves
- Make ready to taste Salt
Bitter leaf Soup also known as (Ofe Onugbu / Obe efo Elewuro or Miyan shuwaka) is a delicious traditional Nigerian soup. The bitter leaves used for this soup ,are properly washed and squeezed ,until there is only a slight taste of bitterness left. Here's a video recipe on How to Cook Bitter Leaf. Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular and delicious Nigerian soup.
Steps to make Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu):
- Wash and season your meat with two knorr cubes and salt, the boil till tender, half way boiling your meat add the stock fish
- Boil and extract the juice from your palm nut then pour in your cooking pot and set on fire, allow to Cook for ten minutes
- Next add the meat and meat stock to the pot then continue to cook for about ten minutes, then add the dry fish and pepper cook for few more minutes then the achi and allow to start thickening
- Lastly, add the bitter leaf, taste and adjust the taste with the remaining knorr cube and salt, allow to thicken to your desired consistency then bring down
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. There should be almost no hint of bitterness left in the leaves after washing. 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).
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