Recipe: Tasty Ugu and okazi soup

Ugu and okazi soup. Wash and slice ugu and okazi,set aside.wash beef and ponmo,season and boil with little water,when almost done,add palm oil,crayfish, melted okpei with water and others,bring to boil,taste to adjust with salt,add ugu,stir,boil for a min,add okazi last stir.boil for two mins.turn off heat,ready to eat. Heat up the palm oil, add some chopped onion , fry a bit and then add the mixed egusi. Ugu and okazi soup Ifeoma Obianagha.

Ugu and achara can also be added to okazi soup. Okazi leaf is normally sold fresh or dry and both are good for this soup. If using dry okazi, add it early in your cooking so it will rehydrate and soften. You can have Ugu and okazi soup using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ugu and okazi soup

1. It's 700 g of Ugu.
2. It's of Okazi200g.
3. It's of Palm oil.
4. It's of Ground pepper.
5. You need of ground crayfish.
6. You need of Okpei.
7. You need of Seasoning.
8. You need of Salt.
9. It's of Beef.
10. Prepare of Ponmo.
11. It's of Dry smoked fish.
12. It's of Finely chopped onions.

Okazi is called Afang in efik or ibibio and is used to prepare the famous Afang soup. Ofe Ukazi "Igbo" or Afang Soup "Efik" is made up of a mixture of vegetables (Afang /Okazi leaves and water leaves - spinach and lamb lettuce can be used as alternatives for this vegetable, Uziza, Ugu, and achara can also be added to okazi soup.) Egusi Soup: Add uziza in addition to ugu, spinach or bitter leaves when cooking Egusi Soup. Afang Okazi Vegetable Soup With Ease. This is a meal I can comfortably eat every day, provided it is served just once a day.

Ugu and okazi soup step by step

1. Wash and slice ugu and okazi,set aside.wash beef and ponmo,season and boil with little water,when almost done,add palm oil,crayfish, melted okpei with water and others,bring to boil,taste to adjust with salt,add ugu,stir,boil for a min,add okazi last stir...boil for two mins...turn off heat,ready to eat...
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This vegetable soup takes time to cook if you do not know the trick of getting everything ready and set, before turning on the cooker. Egusi soup is eaten by almost all Nigerians it cuts across all geo-ethnic zone, Egusi soup has different recipes and methods of cooking. It is cooked with a vast array of leafy vegetables though ugu is the most popular vegetable used. I decided to make this Egusi soup with both Ugu and Okazi leaves. Ofe Owerri is usually prepared with four different vegetable leaves, Okazi, Ugu and Uziza, Oha, although Uziza, which is quite aromatic and Oha aren't as popular as Ugu and Okazi.