Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, bitter leaf soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Make sure that the bitter leaves are well washed, such that there is no trace of bitterness left. If not, wash and squeeze it more. Popularly known as Ofe Onugbu to the eastern parts of Nigeria, it is quite a favorite.

Bitter leaf soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bitter leaf soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook bitter leaf soup using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup:

1. Get Small bowl of Bitter leaf (washed)
2. Make ready 2 kg Beef and cow intestines (washed and cooked)
3. Prepare 2 kg Beef and cow intestines (washed and cooked)
4. Take 2 cups Palm oil or banga (I’m using palm oil)
5. Take 2 cups Palm oil or banga (I’m using palm oil)
6. Take Stockfish
7. Take Enough Dryfish
8. Prepare 1/2 mudu Ede (thickener)
9. Make ready 2 wraps if Ogiri
10. Get Enough Crayfish,
11. Take 2 tablespoons Cameroon pepper
12. Prepare 2 tablespoons Cameroon pepper
13. Take 3 pcs Yellow pepper for flavour
14. Get 2 Seasoning cubes
15. Make ready Salt

Ofe onugnu is similar to the Camerounian Ndole. Blend the crayfish alongside red pepper and set aside. Banga soup is the most popular dish where my dad is from and bitter leaf is the recommended leaf for it. When I met my friend Joy, from Calabar, she introduced me to the Atama leaf which is used by the Efik people for their banga soup which they call Atama soup.

Instructions to make Bitter leaf soup:

1. Per boil and wash bitter leaf very well if too bitter and set aside
2. Boil ede until tender, peel the back and pound until very smooth
3. Pour meat stock inside the pot add Stockfish, dry fish and cook until tender
4. Add ede, bitter leaf and palm oil then add crayfish, Cameroon pepper, yellow pepper, Ogiri, seasoning cubes and salt, stir very well
5. Continue Cooking until the ede dissolves and thickens and the bitter leaf is soft.
6. Pour the meat and taste for salt and adjust the ingredients as bitter leaf need enough ingredients
7. Cover and allow to simmer for 5 mins and enjoy with fufu or any swallow
8. Pour meat stock inside the pot add Stockfish, dry fish and cook until tender
9. Add ede, bitter leaf and palm oil then add crayfish, Cameroon pepper, yellow pepper, Ogiri, seasoning cubes and salt, stir very well
10. Continue Cooking until the ede dissolves and thickens and the bitter leaf is soft.
11. Pour the meat and taste for salt and adjust the ingredients as bitter leaf need enough ingredients
12. Cover and allow to simmer for 5 mins and enjoy with fufu or any swallow

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. The bitter leaves used for this soup ,are properly washed and squeezed ,until there is only a slight taste of bitterness left. Bitter leaf able to treat infections such as leptospirosis. Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular Nigerian soup.

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