Recipe: Perfect Eba and bitter leaf soup

Eba and bitter leaf soup. 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. Now, the best way to describe this meal for today is…."Awesomely wow".

The bitter leaf must be properly washed so that every trace of bitterness in it is removed. A form of thickener must be used e.g. cocoyam. Ofe onufgbo is a low carb soup because the properties of the leaf serve as a body cleanser and help you to maintain your weight. You can cook Eba and bitter leaf soup using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Eba and bitter leaf soup

1. You need 2 cups of garri.
2. It's 2 cups of water.
3. You need 1 of little oil which is optional.
4. It's of Soup.
5. Prepare leaf of Bitter.
6. You need of Palm oil.
7. Prepare of Scotch bonnet.
8. Prepare of Maggi.
9. You need of Onions.
10. Prepare of Curry.

You can cook it in three different ways, such as bitter leaf with egusi (melon seeds), bitter leaf with ede (coco-yam), bitter leaf with achi, bitter leaf with offor, and bitter leaf with ogbono. The soup gets it's name from the vegetable- bitter-leaf, also known as Vernonia amygdaline, wuro, or onugbu. It is a widely consumed vegetable in West Africa and is added to soups, stews and one pot meals for flavor, texture and nutritional benefits-(heavily relies on primary sources than any medical organization) The preparation of the jute leaves soup and how it's served varies from region to region. For example, in some regions, the jute leaves are plucked off the stem and they are left to dry for later use, some also use the dry leaves to make tea, the Chinese also makes stir-fries with the fresh leaves, while in other regions prefers cooking it fresh and serving it over white Rice.

Eba and bitter leaf soup instructions

1. Boil water till hot and pour your garri and mix well. Leave it for like 2 minutes and it's done..
2. Wash your bitter leaf, mostly people grind it in order to remove the bitter taste easily.
3. I wash mine for almost 7 times..
4. In a pot, add your Palm oil, onion scotch bonnet and add your seasonings and Curry.
5. Add a little water and allow it to boil. Add your bitter leaf and cover the pot for like 5 minutes..
6. Serve.

Ofe onugbu (as the Igbo man would call it) is one of Nigeria's most delicious soup. Olugbu or bitter leaf soup can't be prepared without beef, stock fish, crayfish, Kanda etc. These are the things that will give the soup a sweet taste. It can be eaten with either, Eba/ garri/ fufu, semovita, pounded yam or wheat meal. Bitter leaf with water leaf soup is best eaten with semolina, fufu or with eba (starchy bolus) and it can keep one full for a longer time.