Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bitterleaf soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bitter Leaf soup is a robust West African soup, predominant in countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. This dish is neither a soup nor sauce. Bitterleaf Soup is not bitter as implied by the name.
Bitterleaf soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Bitterleaf soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have bitterleaf soup using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bitterleaf soup:
- Make ready Bitterleaf
- Take Palm fruit/ Banga
- Prepare Ogiri
- Get Cocoyam
- Prepare Uziza seed
- Make ready Beef
- Prepare Shaki/cow stripes
- Prepare Cow intestines
- Make ready Stock fish
- Make ready Dry fish
- Make ready Dry pepper
- Get cubes Seasoning
- Take Grounded crayfish
- Take to taste Salt
Prepare it for that Igbo person in your life today. ;) Written recipe. Bitter Leaf Soups are very popular in african cultures however when cooking with bitter leaf it loses most of it's amazing health benefits. See great recipes for Egusi and bitterleaf soup, Bitterleaf soup too! Bitter leaf soup is one of the most delicious soups in Nigeria.
Instructions to make Bitterleaf soup:
- Season your meat with salt, season cubes and pepper and cook till tender. Then add your stock fish and dry fish. Cook for another 5mins.
- Wash your palm fruits and Cocoyam. Set on fire and leave to cook till tender
- Pound your palm fruits. Add some and sieve to get the juice.
- Then use your hand the peel off the back of the Cocoyam and pound together with your uziza seed.
- Set your palm fruit juice on fire. Leave to simmer for about 20mins. Then add your precooked meat with your stock fish and dry fish. Then immediately add your ogiri and bring to boil.
- Cut your Cocoyam into lumps and add to the soup and cover for the Cocoyam to dissolve.
- Now add your Bitterleaf and stir together. Then add your grounded crayfish, stir together and your soup is ready
- Enjoy your soup with any swallow of your choice. For me the best sallow for this soup is Akpu/fufu 😂😂😋😋😋
By the end of this article you would have learned how I made the delicious looking plate of bitterleaf soup below with. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the Igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria, and The people of Cameroon. Called Ofé Onugbo by the Igbos, the Cameroonians call it Ndolé. Bitter leaf Soup is peculiar to the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria. A lot of non-Igbos shy away from bitter leaf soup (Well, I did for the longest time) because they think that, true.
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