Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bitterleaf soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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 well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Bitterleaf soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bitterleaf soup using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitterleaf soup:
- Make ready Pre washed bitterleaf
- Get Stockfish
- Get Dry fish
- Take Cow meat, or any meat of your choice
- Make ready Kpomo
- Prepare Periwinkle (I like it alot)although its optional
- Make ready Ogiri
- Prepare Cocoyam or cocoyam flour (thickner)
- Make ready Palm oil
- Get Seasoning of choice
- Get Salt
- Get Atarodo (fresh pepper)
- Get 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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