Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bitter leaf soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Make sure that the bitter leaves are well washed, such that there is no trace of bitterness left. If not, wash and squeeze it more. Popularly known as Ofe Onugbu to the eastern parts of Nigeria, it is quite a favorite.
Bitter leaf soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Bitter leaf soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bitter leaf soup using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Prepare Bitterleaf (dry or fresh)
- Take Ginger and garlic paste
- Take Tarugu
- Prepare Tattasai
- Make ready Onions
- Get Curry,salt, seasonings
- Make ready Red oil
- Prepare Grounded groundnut
- Make ready Meat or fish
The bitter leaves used for this soup ,are properly washed and squeezed ,until there is only a slight taste of bitterness left. Then add the bitter leaves, stir, taste, add more salt if necessary then cook for three to two minutes and you are done with the making of Nigerian Bitter Leaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu). Either of these five can go along with it - Eba, Fufu, Semo, Wheat or pounded yam. Subscribe Below to Receive My Free Weekly Recipes.
Instructions to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Cut and wash bitterleaf,wash wit salt to remove excess bitterness
- Add in ur red oil,add in ur blended tarugu, tattasai,onions,garlic,and, ginger, give it a fry till done.add water den ur seasonings, curry,meat or fish allow it to boil.
- After d water has boil add in ur grounded groundnut to thick d water den add in ur washed bitterleaf to boil wit d water cos bitter leaf is hard to cook.
- Allow it to cook until ur soup thickens
- Ur soup is ready u can eat with any swallow of ur choice or it can be taken like dat it cures lost appetite
Blend the crayfish alongside red pepper and set aside. This version of bitter leaf soup, requires some special ingredients like ogiri, and a thickening agent usually boiled and pounded cocoyam, achi from the Brachystegia eurycoma plant or mkpuru ofo from the deuterium macrocarpum plant. I would be using ground mkpuru ofo for this recipe. Bitter leaf soup can be enjoyed as an accompaniment to pounded yam, amala, plantain, fufu, and so forth. It can also be served on rice or eaten with a side of boiled plantain. [READ]: How Bitter Leaf Can Improve Your Health.
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