Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, bitter leaf soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Bitter leaf soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Bitter leaf soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Bitter Leaf soup is a robust West African soup, predominant in countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. This dish is neither a soup nor sauce. Bitter leaf soup, like most other Nigerian soups is named after the particular leaf which is used in preparing it. But of course, you need to wash this leaf to remove at least ninety percent of the bitter.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have bitter leaf soup using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Get leaf Washed bitter
- Make ready Palm oil
- Prepare Smoked fish
- Get Beef
- Make ready Stockfish
- Take Ground crayfish
- Get Ogili
- Get Ground pepper
- Take Seasoning
- Take Salt
It is prepared with a bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and although the. Bitter leaf soup is one of the most delicious soups in Nigeria. By the end of this article you would have learned how I made the delicious looking plate of bitterleaf soup below with cocoa yam and few other. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the Igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria, and The people of Cameroon.
Instructions to make Bitter leaf soup:
- 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.
- 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
By the end of this article you would have learned how I made the delicious looking plate of bitterleaf soup below with cocoa yam and few other. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the Igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria, and The people of Cameroon. Called Ofé Onugbo by the Igbos, the Cameroonians call it Ndolé. Bitter leaf soup is named after the leaf used in preparing it. Of course you don't want to end up with a bitter soup, so wash all traces of bitterness from the leaves.
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