Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, draw soup with bitter leaf. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Draw soup with bitter leaf is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Draw soup with bitter leaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
I made this soup with bitter leaves you might want to boil the bitter leaves with water for ten to fifteen minutes. This technique would further reduce the bitter tastes and also soften the leaves. Nigerian Ogbono Soup with Bitter leaf (onugbu) (grandma's method) It is common to see ogbono soup prepared with Ugwu (fluted pumpkin leaves) or Spinach (as in this recipe here), but my grandma always prepare hers' with Bitter leaf, and trust me… it's surprisingly delicious. Even if merged with either okro, bitter leaf, pumpkin leaves (ugwu) or spinach to make palatable soups, it remains ogbono soup, this is because of its influence over other ingredients, from its savour to its taste and even it's brownish colour.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have draw soup with bitter leaf using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Draw soup with bitter leaf:
- Make ready Smoked fish
- Get Stock fish
- Make ready Cryfish
- Prepare Fresh Okro
- Make ready Ogbono
- Make ready Palm oil
- Make ready Bitterleaf
- Take Dry pepper
- Take Seasoning
- Take Onions
- Make ready MJ's all purpose spice (or spices of choice)
- Prepare Iru (daddawan kalwa)
As draw soup is one of the most popular dish where my dad is how to cook ogbono soup with bitter leaf and leaf! Ogbono soup is a special delicacy. If you are outside Nigeria, you can use dried, washed and squeezed bitter leaves but you need to first of all make the bitter leaves soft and fresh again before adding them to the soup. If you cannot buy cocoyam corms where you live, you can use cocoyam flour.
Instructions to make Draw soup with bitter leaf:
- Boil the stockfish, seasoning, iru and onions for 15 minutes
- Add up dry grounded pepper, cryfish, and spices and add water as required, allow to boil
- Add blended Okro and stir well
- As the above is allow to boil in Palm oil stir fry the ogbono powder for 1-2 min. This brings out the aroma and flavor of ogbono more,then add it up to the above Okro soup to thicken the soup as required and stir well to blend. Let it boil for a while 4- 5 min
- Make sure you wash the bitter leaf well to remove the excess bitterness, then sprinkle and allow for 2 min
- The palm oil and smoked fish come last and allow for 2 min and then done. You can decide to use meat or fish of choice or both.
- Serve with tuwo, semo, eba etc.
If you are outside Nigeria, you can use dried, washed and squeezed bitter leaves but you need to first of all make the bitter leaves soft and fresh again before adding them to the soup. If you cannot buy cocoyam corms where you live, you can use cocoyam flour. An alternative to cocoyam flour is potato flour. Ogbono Soup also known as Draw Soup makes eating Fufu Recipes so easy because of its slimy nature which helps the lumps of fufu slide down. If your kids do not like Okra Soup because of the chunks of Okra, then try Ogbono Soup, they will surely love it.
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