Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam. To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. Here is how you cook it. This delicious soup can be served pounded yam.
Add the bitter leaves, maggi and more salt (optional) to taste then cover and cook for five minutes. Ur soup is ready, enjoy with pounded yam or any swallow of choice Pounded yam in Nigeria is not served as a course meal but paired with a plate of Nigerian soups, it goes best with egusi or bitter leaf soup. Pounded yam is a type of swallow in Nigeria. You can cook Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam
- You need 1/2 of Tuber Yam.
- It's 3 of Stock fish and smoked fish (softened in hot water).
- Prepare of Precooked Assorted meat (Beef/goat chunks, shaki, snails etc).
- It's 1/4 cup of ground crayfish.
- It's 6 of small cocoyams (peeled and washed).
- Prepare 1/2 Cup of washed Bitter leaf(dried/fresh).
- It's 1 Tbs of dry pepper.
- It's 1/2 of Palm Oil.
- It's of Ogiri.
- Prepare of Salt.
- It's of Maggi.
Other swallows include eba, fuff, and tuwo shinkafa. I am yet to figure out a way to preserve this food over twenty-four hours. Allow the soup to boil before adding the ground crayfish, a seasoning cube, salt and pepper to taste. The cocoyam (pounded) and ogiri should be added at this point.
Bitterleaf Soup and pounded yam instructions
- Wash assorted meat thoroughly with boiled water and parboil with onions and maggi for 10 minutes. You can continue cooking until it is soft enough for consumption..
- Cook the cocoa-yam until it is soft; peel off the back and pound with a mortar and pestle until you have something soft and seedless then set aside..
- Use hot water to soak the dried fish and stockfish separately for a minute and wash thoroughly, then set aside..
- Now wash the bitter leaves until the bitter taste is washed off and set aside..
- Add a teaspoon of salt (or according to how you consume salt), the washed dried fish, stockfish,Ogiri and crayfish/pepper to the boiling meat in the pot.
- Then add the palm oil, stir and allow to boil for 10 to 20 minutes..
- As the meat, fish, and stockfish boil together add the soft pounded cocoa-yam and allow to dissolve..
- Add the bitter leaves, maggi and more salt (optional) to taste then cover and cook for five minutes..
- Ur soup is ready, enjoy with pounded yam or any swallow of choice.
Now scoop in the cocoyam paste, cover and leave to cook until the cocoyam lumps are well dissolved. Bitter leaf soup is usually served with Pounded Yam. iStock Nigerian Pounded Yam Served With Spicy Bitter Leaf Soup Stock Photo - Download Image Now Download this Nigerian Pounded Yam Served With Spicy Bitter Leaf Soup photo now. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Canada photos available for quick and easy download. You can add more water if you feel that the soup is too thick. Add salt to taste and the soup is ready Serve with Garri (Eba), Semolina Fufu, Amala, Cassava Fufu or Pounded Yam.