Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bitter leaf soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Bitter leaf soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Bitter leaf soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have bitter leaf soup using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Get leaf Bitter
- Get Cocayam
- Prepare Ogiri
- Take Red oil
- Prepare Dry fish
- Prepare Stock fish
- Take Crayfish
- Make ready Goat meat
- Take cubes Seasoning
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.
Steps to make Bitter leaf soup:
- Cook and pound the cocayam, washing and reboil the bitter leaf and set aside
- Spice the goat meat and cook when tender u add stock fish, and allow to cook add the pounded peppers crayfish and dry fish and cover for a while
- Then you add seasoning cubes and spice. U can now add the cocayam ogiri and allow to dissolve and add the bitter leaf and cover for some few minutes and bring down
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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