Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Bitter leaf soup

Bitter leaf soup. Bitterleaf Soup Bitterleaf soup is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria. It is native to the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria and most Igbos will tell you that this is their favourite soup in the world. How to Cook Bitter Leaf Soup [Video] Bitterleaf soup - Ofe onugbu (as the Igbos like to call it) is very delicious and also comes third on my list of Nigerian popular soups.

This dish is neither a soup nor sauce, but something in between - a slightly soupy vegetable that is served to accompany starchy food like fufu. Meet this Nigerian Soup that makes DELICIOUS and BITTER taste good. Ofe Onugbu Click To Tweet 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. You can have Bitter leaf soup using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bitter leaf soup

1. Prepare leaf of Washed bitter.
2. You need of Palm oil.
3. You need of Smoked fish.
4. You need of Beef.
5. Prepare of Stockfish.
6. Prepare of Ground crayfish.
7. It's of Ogili.
8. It's of Ground pepper.
9. Prepare of Seasoning.
10. It's of Salt.

As the name implies, the bitterleaf (also called bitter leaf) adds a distinctive flavor to the soup, but if none is available substitute spinach or other greens. Skip the optional ingredients to make the most basic Ndolé soup. Ndolé (Bitterleaf) Soup Recipe Ndolé (or N'Dolé, or Ndole) is a hearty soup from Cameroon. Bitter leaf soup, which is commonly referred to as ofe onugbu by the Igbo people of the eastern part of Nigeria is a rich soup that must be cooked with bitter leaves in order to retain its title.

Bitter leaf soup step by step

1. Soak your bitterleaf in water,wash meat and stockfish, season and boil.Debone dry fish,set aside.I used oat flour as thickener by dilluting it in water to be a paste,set aside..
2. When beef and stockfish are almost done, top up a little water,add thickener, palm oil,dried fish, bring to boil, add other ingredients,but seasoning become salt,taste to adjust with salt,strain was er from leaf,add leaf last.stir,.boil for 5mins....enjoy with your favourite swallow.

The bitter leaves are what make the soup what it is. Ofe onufgbo is a low carb soup because the properties of the leaf serve as a body cleanser and help you to maintain your weight. You can cook it in three different ways, such as bitter leaf with egusi (melon seeds), bitter leaf with ede (coco-yam), bitter leaf with achi, bitter leaf with offor, and bitter leaf with ogbono. 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. The catfish acts as thickener for the soup.