Chaya soup

Name: Chaya soup
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: leaves Chaya; Dry fish; Cray fish; Stew or sauce (with palm oil or groundnut oil); Meat or chicken (already cooked and fried); Seasoning (maggi, curry etc)

Maryam Abdulkarim Halliru @mims_indulgence

Abuja

Chaya is a vegetable that is said to give blood 15 times more than Ugu (from research done). Some places refer to it as "hospital too far" because duringvthe colonial times, before you can get to a hospital, a treatment would have been given to you using this vegetable. I also have a friend who served in Edo state and she said the leaf was served with everything and they ate it with breakfast, lunch and dinner and that she never fell ill even once during her stay there.

Maryam Abdulkarim Halliru @mims_indulgence

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Ingredients

leavesChaya
Dry fish
Cray fish
Stew or sauce (with palm oil or groundnut oil)
Meat or chicken (already cooked and fried)
Seasoning (maggi, curry etc)

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Steps

1

Wash and cut the leaves
2

In a pot, make sauce or stew and add the meat, dried fish and cray fish. Add the seasoning. Leave to simmer so all the flavors can come out in the sauce
3

Pour the leaves and leave to cook on low heat for 10 - 15 minutes (chaya leaves are not hard but its preferable to cook it longer because there's a particular vitamin that gets released d longer it stays on the fire).