How to Cook Tasty Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu)

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Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu). If you are outside Nigeria, you can use dried, washed and squeezed bitter leaves to make bitterleaf soup (ofe onugbu) 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.

Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) How to Cook Bitter Leaf Soup [Video] Bitter leaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu) Bitter leaf Soup also known as (Ofe Onugbu / Obe efo Elewuro or Miyan shuwaka) is a delicious traditional Nigerian soup. It is prepared with a bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and although the name suggest that it is a bitter soup, that's not the case. 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. You can cook Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu)

  1. You need 1 kg of beef.
  2. You need Half of kg goat meat.
  3. You need 3 of knorr cubes.
  4. You need 4 cups of raw palm nut.
  5. You need 1 of large dry fish.
  6. It's 1 cup of shredded stock.
  7. Prepare 1 of wrap ogiri.
  8. You need 1 tablespoon of grounded Cameron pepper.
  9. It's 2 tablespoons of grounded crayfish.
  10. Prepare 2 of heap tablespoons of ground achi.
  11. You need 2 of hand full of washed bitter leaves.
  12. It's to taste of Salt.

This soup is popular because it could be made in more than five different ways by different ethnic groups in Nigeria. 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. Bitterleaf Soup is the most traditional Igbo soup.

Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) instructions

  1. Wash and season your meat with two knorr cubes and salt, the boil till tender, half way boiling your meat add the stock fish.
  2. Boil and extract the juice from your palm nut then pour in your cooking pot and set on fire, allow to Cook for ten minutes.
  3. Next add the meat and meat stock to the pot then continue to cook for about ten minutes, then add the dry fish and pepper cook for few more minutes then the achi and allow to start thickening.
  4. Lastly, add the bitter leaf, taste and adjust the taste with the remaining knorr cube and salt, allow to thicken to your desired consistency then bring down.

Prepare it for that Igbo person in your life today. ;)Written recipe: http://www.allnigerianrecipes.com/so. Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular Nigerian soup. 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 to it's name, it is a very bitter soup. 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.