Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bitter leaf soup with beef and smoked fish. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Bitter-leaf soup is a robust West African soup, predominant in countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. This dish is neither a soup nor sauce, but something in between - a slightly soupy vegetable I always start with some kind of meat or fish (mostly smoked) and then proceed with sauté onions. Bitter leaf soup is a soup prepared with the freshly squeezed or dried leaves of the ever green plant called Vernonia amygdaline.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bitter leaf soup with beef and smoked fish using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter leaf soup with beef and smoked fish:
- Make ready 1 whole smoked fish
- Take I kilo Beef
- Make ready leaf Bitter
- Get 2 table spoons of Dry pepper
- Make ready 1 wrap of ogiri(Native seasoning)
- Make ready 3 table spoons of grounded crayfish
- Prepare cocoyam
- Get salt
- Take 2 cooking spoons of Red Oil
- Prepare cubes Seasoning
The soup like most soups from the region has a meat / fish broth base and requires thickening If using dried bitter leaves, soak it in some hot water to tenderize the leaves. Combine meat, fish , snail and smoked fish in a pot. Bitter leaf soup, like most other Nigerian soups is named after the particular leaf which is used in preparing it. But of course, you need to wash this leaf to remove at least ninety percent of the bitter taste, just so you don't end up with a very bitter soup.
Step by Step to make Bitter leaf soup with beef and smoked fish:
- Wash and boil cocoyam until soft. bring down and pound using mortar or grind to make a paste.
- Wash and boil bitter leaf, open lid when it boils and leave for 2minutes. it helps to remove bitterness. Then sieve out water and allow to cool.
- Wash beef with a little salt, then put on fire, add a seasoning cube and salt to taste. Boil for 10minutes
- Add water to the beef, add red oil, add cocoyam and boil for 5minutes
- Add crayfish, ogiri(native seasoning), add a seasoning cube,add grounded pepper, add the smoked fish, add salt and stir. boil mixture for 3minutes making sure that the cocoyam is all dissolved.
- Finally, wash bitter leaf thoroughly, squeeze out the water and add to the soup. stir all mixture and boil for another 3minutes. make sure soup is tasty enough and bring down.
The ingredients listed below would make. This bitter leaf soup recipe (also known as Ofe Onugbu) is generously stocked with flavoursome meat, fish & cocoyams. COOKING STEPS FOR Egusi Soup With vegetables. Bitterleaf Soup is not bitter as implied by the name. Find out how to cook this traditional soup Before you cook Bitterleaf Soup.
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