How To Prepare Bitter Leaf (Onugbu) Soup

Bitter leaf (Onugbu) Soup

Bitter leaf soup is a soup prepared with the freshly washed leaves of the ever green plant called vernonia amygdaline. Bitter leaf soup is popularly eaten by the igbo speaking people of Eastern Nigeria.

Ingredients

Bitter leaf

Cocoyam (thickener)

Fresh meat

Maggie

Onions

Grounded crayfish

Dried fish

Fresh pepper

Palm oil

Salt

Stockfish

Materials Needed

Knife

Water

Mortar and Pestle

Method of Preparations

-Wash bitter leaf for about 15 to 20 minutes with water

-Taste to ensure that the bitter taste has been removed

-Peel and boil cocoyam for 20 minutes till it become soft

-Strain the cocoyam and pound in mortar, add palm oil in measured quantity and pound till it forms paste

-Wash stockfish with hot water and wash the beef properly

-Season beef, dried fish and Stock fish and boil together for at least 20 minutes until it becomes tender.

-Add water periodically to ensure that you have enough meat stock.

-Add pounded cocoyam paste in measured quantity to the pot of meat and fish.

-Add pepper and allow it to simmer for about 15 minutes

Keep stirring as you add cocoyam paste till you have the desired thickness

Add salt to taste and stir properly

Serve with pounded yam or hot eba (garri)