Edo Black Soup

Name: Edo Black Soup
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: Ingredients; Bunch Scent leaf; Bunch Pumpkin leafs; Bunch Uziza(hot leaf); Bunch Ebeewuwa; Bunch bitterleaf (parboiled before use); Palmnut extract(optional); 2/3 Cooking Spoon palm oil; Cubes Seasoning; Salt; Dry bony fish pieced; Handful crayfish blended with the leafs; Locust beans; Goat head pieced or other meats of choice; Blended fresh peppers

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Black soup originally called OMOEBE is from the people of Edo state. It's a soup I grew up eating and is not a fancy kind of soup but very nutritious, medicinal and tasty.
I remember vividly my maternal grandmother used to make black soup for us from young cassava leafs just coming up when we visited her during Sallah celebration. (God rest her soul) As long as the leaf is medicinal, almost all leafs goes for this soup. I see this soup as a version of Edikakong from the people of Calabar.
Some persons make theirs with just one leaf (bitterleaf). If you want to take this soup to another level then endeavour to add any of the listed leafs aside from pumpkin leafs.

Foodiescene/ Pat's Kitchen @cook_11730583

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Ingredients

Ingredients
BunchScent leaf
BunchPumpkin leafs
BunchUziza(hot leaf)
BunchEbeewuwa
Bunchbitterleaf (parboiled before use)
Palmnut extract(optional)
2/3Cooking Spoon palm oil
CubesSeasoning
Salt
Dry bony fish pieced
Handfulcrayfish blended with the leafs
Locust beans
Goat head pieced or other meats of choice
Blended fresh peppers

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Steps

1

Choose three from the listed leafs
Wash and blend the leafs with the crayfish and pepper to a smooth paste using water.
2

If using bitterleaf boil with potash and rinse it before blending
3

Cook the meats with water and add the blended leaves to the meat stock
4

Add palm oil, salt, pieced bony fish, seasoning to taste
5

The consistency for the soup shouldn't be a bit light and not thick.
6

For that real taste of this soup choose from scent leaf, Uziza, bitterleaf, ebeewuwa.