Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup)
Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ofe onugbu (bitterleaf soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Bitterleaf Soup is the most traditional Igbo soup. Prepare it for that Igbo person in your life today. ;) Written recipe. 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.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ofe onugbu (bitterleaf soup) using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup):
  1. Make ready Goat meat
  2. Get Stock fish and smoked fish
  3. Prepare 2 tablespoon ground crayfish
  4. Take Freshly washed bitterleaf
  5. Make ready 5 small cocoyams
  6. Prepare Quarter bottle of palm oil
  7. Take Seasoning cubes and salt to taste
  8. Prepare Periwinkle
  9. Make ready Pepper

This is a simple home made recipe for making bitter leaf soup. Before the video I already washed and parboiled my bitter leaf, to help reduce the bitterness. Home >> Nigerian Soups Recipes >> Bitterleaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu). How to Cook Bitter Leaf Soup [Video] Ofe Owerri How to Cook Soup with Cocoyam Flour as Thickener [Video] Try the low carb keto friendly Bitterleaf Soup.

Steps to make Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup):
  1. Wash and peel cocoyam. Put in a pot, add water and boil until thoroughly cooked. Remove from water and pound to paste in a mortar or process in a blender. Set aside
  2. Boil goat meat in pot till tender. Add smoked, dried fish and stock fish. Add seasoning cube, salt, crayfish, pepper and simmer for 15 minutes.
  3. Add pounded cocoyam and palm oil. Stir well to dissolve cocoyam paste. Simmer for another 5 minutes. You can add more water if it is too thick.
  4. Add your periwinkle and washed bitterleaf. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Taste and adjust for seasoning.
  5. Your soup is ready. Serve with your choice of swallow, pounded yam, semovita, wheat, eBay.

Bitter Leaf Soup, also known as Ofe Onugbu is a popular and delicious Nigerian soup. Wash the Bitter leaves with hot water to get rid of as much bitterness as you can. There should be almost no hint of bitterness left in the leaves after washing. Bitter leaf soup is a soup prepared with the freshly squeezed or dried leaves of the ever green plant called Vernonia amygdaline. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the Igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria, and The people of Cameroon.

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