Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup)

Name: Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf soup)
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: Goat meat; Stock fish and smoked fish; 2 tablespoon ground crayfish; Freshly washed bitterleaf; 5 small cocoyams; Quarter bottle of palm oil; Seasoning cubes and salt to taste; Periwinkle; Pepper

Nkem Ikeke @cook_14416674

#Rivers This soup has this peculiar bitter sweet taste that comes from the leaves. It leaves you wanting more.

Nkem Ikeke @cook_14416674

#Rivers This soup has this peculiar bitter sweet taste that comes from the leaves. It leaves you wanting more.

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Ingredients

Goat meat
Stock fish and smoked fish
2 tablespoonground crayfish
Freshly washed bitterleaf
5small cocoyams
Quarter bottle of palm oil
Seasoning cubes and salt to taste
Periwinkle
Pepper

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Steps

1

Wash and peel cocoyam. Put in a pot, add water and boil until thoroughly cooked. Remove from water and pound to paste in a mortar or process in a blender. Set aside
2

Boil goat meat in pot till tender. Add smoked, dried fish and stock fish. Add seasoning cube, salt, crayfish, pepper and simmer for 15 minutes.
3

Add pounded cocoyam and palm oil. Stir well to dissolve cocoyam paste. Simmer for another 5 minutes. You can add more water if it is too thick.
4

Add your periwinkle and washed bitterleaf. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Taste and adjust for seasoning.
5

Your soup is ready. Serve with your choice of swallow, pounded yam, semovita, wheat, eBay.