How to Cook Delicious Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup

Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup. Ogbono is botanically called Irvingia gabonensis, a species of African trees that bear edible mango-like fruits. The fruits are very rich in fat and protein. When ground, ogbono is prepared as soup with other condiments and eaten with fufu or pounded yam.

Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup Ogbono are seeds found in the wild African bush mango plant common in Nigeria. These seeds are used mainly to make a sticky Ogbono soup which is sometimes referred to as draw soup. This soup is sometimes prepared with additional Okro leaves. You can have Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup

  1. It's of Okro A full bowl.
  2. You need of Protein :kpomo,Cow leg, Goat meat,Stock Fish: gbonga fish.
  3. It's of Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leaves aka ugwu and uziza leaf.
  4. You need of Ground crayfish.
  5. It's of Iru.
  6. Prepare of Pepper : Yellow and Red pepper, Bawa aka chilli pepper.
  7. It's of Kitchen glory veg spice (1 satchet).
  8. Prepare of Stock cubes to taste (3 - 5).
  9. You need to taste of Salt.

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Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup step by step

  1. Wash your protein of choice, stock fish,Kpomo,dry fish. Put in a clean pot then spice it with sliced onions and stock cube. Put your Ogbono in a small bowl,mix it with palm oil and place it inside the pot for the Ogbono to get smooth. Remove it. Cook till meat is soft. Then bring down from fire..
  2. Pour the red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil melts(don't allow it bleach,it should just turn translucent),add the sliced onions and fry for sometime,add the okro, pepper and iru to the mix,then fry..
  3. Add the meat/fish stock (water from cooking the fish and meat), Add the Ogbono then stir the okro mix. Still too thick? you can add a little hot water in the same way till you get the consistency you want..
  4. Top up the water when necessary. If you don't stir it, it will burn. Dont cook for long so its still fresh. Add the ground crayfish(reason it's added now is so it doesn't burn the soup). Stir and add the sliced Uziza leaves, then add the Nigerian pumpkin leaves..
  5. Stir very well and add the cooked stockfish,Meat is added if it's for personal use..
  6. Leave to simmer and it is done! The perfect swallow for Okro/Ogbono Soup is Pounded Yam. You can also serve it with Eba (Garri), Amala, Semolina Fufu,  or Cassava Fufu..

On this page, I will show you how to cook the best Ogbono Soup you have ever cooked. This is my easy, quick Ogbono Okra Soup. I hope you try it out and enjoy it INGREDIENTS Okra Ogbono Crayfish Smoked Panla Fish Onion Bell Pepper/Tatatshe Scotch Bonnet /Ata Rodo Goat Meat Goat. Okra soup is one of the most popular Nigerian soup, I like this soup because it is very easy to prepare and likely the cheapest soup in Nigeria. I am still on my 'meals on a budget' series and this is the final week of the series.

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