Recipe: Tasty Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu)

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Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu). 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. Bitterleaf Soup is not bitter as implied by the name. Bitterleaf soup is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria.

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.

Home for a couple of days and decided to make bitter leaf soup a.k.a. 'ofe onugbu'.

You can cook Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu)

1. It’s 1 kg of beef.

2. It’s Half of kg goat meat.

3. You need 3 of knorr cubes.

4. Prepare 4 cups of raw palm nut.

5. You need 1 of large dry fish.

6. It’s 1 cup of shredded stock.

7. It’s 1 of wrap ogiri.

8. Prepare 1 tablespoon of grounded Cameron pepper.

9. It’s 2 tablespoons of grounded crayfish.

10. It’s 2 of heap tablespoons of ground achi.

11. It’s 2 of hand full of washed bitter leaves.

12. Prepare to taste of Salt.

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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.

Wash the Bitter leaves with hot water to get rid of as much bitterness as you can.

Bitter Leaf Soup(Ofe Onugbu) instructions

1. Wash and season your meat with two knorr cubes and salt, the boil till tender, half way boiling your meat add the stock fish.

2. Boil and extract the juice from your palm nut then pour in your cooking pot and set on fire, allow to Cook for ten minutes.

3. Next add the meat and meat stock to the pot then continue to cook for about ten minutes, then add the dry fish and pepper cook for few more minutes then the achi and allow to start thickening.

4. Lastly, add the bitter leaf, taste and adjust the taste with the remaining knorr cube and salt, allow to thicken to your desired consistency then bring down.

There should be almost no hint of bitterness left in the leaves after washing.

Bitterleaf soup (Ofe onugbu) is one of Nigeria's popular delicacy that's tasty and nutritious.

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.