Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, bitterleaf soup with snail and akpu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bitterleaf Soup is not bitter as implied by the name. Find out how to cook this traditional soup recipe. The name is quite misleading in that a well prepared Bitterleaf Soup should not have even the slightest bitterness.
Bitterleaf soup with snail and akpu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bitterleaf soup with snail and akpu is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have bitterleaf soup with snail and akpu using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitterleaf soup with snail and akpu:
- Take 1 kg snail
- Get 2 handful bitterleaf
- Make ready Salt
- Take 15 pieces Cocoyam
- Get 2 cksp Red oil
- Make ready 2 cubes Maggi
- Take 2 wraps akpu
- Get 1 wrap ogiri
- Get 2 dry fish
- Make ready 2 cksp crayfish
- Take 4 pieces yellow pepper
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. Bitter leaf soup is a soup prepared with the freshly squeezed or dried leaves of the ever green plant called Vernonia amygdaline. Like most other African soups, this authentic African food sauce is prepared with fish, meat, snail, either in combination or singly, with. Your bitter leaf soup is ready to eat.
Steps to make Bitterleaf soup with snail and akpu:
- Wash off the sands from the cocoyam and boil for 30minutes
- Soak the bitterleaf in water with salt at least for 5minutes and rinse off twice.
- Onces the cocoyam is done,peel and pound.pound till is smooth and add a teaspoon of red oil and pound it lastly to mix it up very well.
- Wash the snails with alum and warm water.cook with dry fish.add salt and maggi cubes.
- Pour in more water and red oil to the meat and red oil and allow it to boil very well.
- Mould the cocoyam in balls and add to the soup.
- Cook it for 20minutes,by now it will be thick add crayfish,salt,yellow pepper and ogiri.
- Cook it for 15minutes and add the bitter leaf.
- Cook it for 4minutes.the soup is ready.
Bitter leaf soup can be eaten or served with pounded yam or semolina or eba. Preparation Put your bitterleaf in a pot and boil with lots of water till stems turn yellow to further remove bitterness Put the stockfish, smoked. Hence Ofe onugbu is bitterleaf soup. The soup like most soups from the region has a meat / fish broth base and requires If using dried bitter leaves, soak it in some hot water to tenderize the leaves. Combine meat, fish , snail and smoked fish in a pot.
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