Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. Yes, we made the ogbono soup video with bitter leaves. But the most popular of them all is the cocoa yam and bitter leaves combination - what we have below.

BITTER LEAF SOUP (ofe onugbu) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. BITTER LEAF SOUP (ofe onugbu) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make BITTER LEAF SOUP (ofe onugbu):

1. Get leaf Already washed bitter
2. Take Cocoyam (enough for thicken the soup)
3. Make ready Palm oil
4. Prepare Crayfish (grounded)
5. Get Blended pepper
6. Get leaf Uziza
7. Take Stock fish
8. Prepare Dry fish
9. Make ready Beef
10. Make ready Ogiri
11. Prepare Salt and Maggi

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. Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular and delicious Nigerian soup. It is peculiar to the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria.

Instructions to make BITTER LEAF SOUP (ofe onugbu):

1. Wash bitter leaf properly and cut them if too long and set aside
2. Wash the beef, dry fish and stock fish and set aside
3. Wash and cook the cocoyam until very soft then pound it smoothly and set aside
4. Put the meat, stock fish in a pot and add water, seasoning cube, salt and crayfish put it on fire to boil until it well cook
5. Once they are well cook add palm oil and dry fish and allow to cook for some time then add grinded pepper and the pounded cocoyam then cover and allow to boil for some time
6. Wash and slice the uziza leaf. Add it in the pot also the ogiri. At this point add the bitter leaf and add more Maggi and salt (if necessary) and cook for like 10 minutes. Your bitter leaf soup is ready

Wash the Bitter leaves with hot water to get rid of as much bitterness as you can. Hence Ofe onugbu is bitterleaf soup. The soup like most soups from the region has a meat / fish broth base and requires thickening which is done by adding pounded cocoyam paste (ede). The peculiar taste of the soup comes from the leaves used and the presence of Ogiri (fermented. Bitter leaf soup is very popular and easy to make Nigerian soup, here is how to make ofe onugbu with cocoa yam.

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