Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bitterleaf soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Bitterleaf soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have bitterleaf soup using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bitterleaf soup:
- Make ready Pre washed bitterleaf
- Make ready Stockfish
- Take Dry fish
- Get Cow meat, or any meat of your choice
- Get Kpomo
- Make ready Periwinkle (I like it alot)although its optional
- Take Ogiri
- Get Cocoyam or cocoyam flour (thickner)
- Prepare Palm oil
- Make ready Seasoning of choice
- Prepare Salt
- Take Atarodo (fresh pepper)
- Make ready Crayfish
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.
Steps to make Bitterleaf soup:
- First, boil water and pour over your bitterleaf adding a little salt(this helps to reduce the bitter taste faster). After a while, wash it out of the hot water, then wash again with cold water then drain and set aside.
- Grind/pound your fresh pepper and set aside. Wash and debone your dry fish and set aside. Wash your kpomo thoroughly to remove sand, then dice it into smaller cubes and set aside. Rinse your stock fish in hot water or cold water and set aside. Grind/ pound your crayfish and set aside. Wash your periwinkle properly with salt and warm water and set aside. If using the fresh cocoyam, wash and boil, then when it is soft, pond it smooth and set aside.
- Wash your meat very well into a clean pot, add your seasoning, Salt, pepper and water. Then put the pot on fire to start cooking
- When your meat is almost done, add your stock fish, kpomo, periwinkle and dryfish and allow to cook along side the meat.
- When the meat is tender enough, add more water, then your grounded fresh pepper and crayfish, then cover the pot and allow to boil for like 5-10mins
- Taste for salt and Seasoning, then at this point, add your pounded cocoyam and palm oil, then allow to boil for like 5mins so the soup thickens. If using the cocoyam powder, mix the powder with 2tbps of palm oil or as required and add to the pot of soup, then allow to boil.
- Next, add your ogiri, allow to boil for 2mins then finally add your bitterleaf.
- Reduce heat and let it boil for like 3mins. Then remove from heat.
- Your bitterleaf soup is ready to be consumed with any swallow of your choice.
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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