Ewedu and okro soup. Okra soup is very good when cooked green and fresh. Ewedu leaves are good for weight loss. They are both full of vitamins which can be destroyed by heat, reason we do not overcook these greens.
Some people call it okra, while some knows it as okro.
I will be interchanging the names in the post so you can get familiar with it.
This is just another way of making this soup.
You can cook Ewedu and okro soup using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Ewedu and okro soup
- It's of Ewedu.
- Prepare of Meat.
- It's of Okro.
- Prepare of Oil.
- It's of Seasoning.
- You need of Daddawa(locust beans).
- Prepare of Scotch bonnet.
- You need of Red bell pepper.
- It's of Kanwa.
Ewedu leaf as the Yoruba's call it, Achingbara in Igbo, Rama in Hausa or Jute leaves in English Language is a green leafy edible vegetable that is prepared into a delicious slimy soup called ewedu. Ewedu, like okro soup, is popularly used to eat some traditional Nigerian meals called swallows (like amala, eba, fufu, semo and the likes). The Nigerian okro vegetable soup This soup can be made with more vegetables that it almost looks like Edikang ikong but I prefer mine with a little less of the leafy greens. Because in my opinion too much green veggies reduces the 'draw' (viscosity) Factor.
Ewedu and okro soup step by step
- In a pot add your washed meat, seasoning, onions, salt and allow to cook.
- Add grinded scotch bonnet, pepper locust beans and grated okro and allow to cook for 10mnts.
- Then add the ewedu leaves and little kanwa and allow to cook for 5mnts.
- Served with tuwo.
Which is why I like soups like Ogbono and Ewedu. Ingredients for making ewedu soup is as follows; this would make a simple pot of soup for about six people. You can increase or decrease the ingredients depending on the number of people you are looking to feed and of course their stomach sizes. Ewedu is green leafy vegetable that is paired with stew for swallow. Other names for Ewedu include Jute leaves and Molokhai.
