Edo black soup

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Edo black soup also known as omoebe is a Nigerian soup made mainly from three leaves namely scent leaf, uziza leaf and bitter leaf. Other ingredients include beef, onion, crayfish, pepper and palm oil. [1]

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Origin

The Benin soup is popular in Edo State, although it can be taken by anyone in Nigeria. [2]

Overview

The meat is boiled with seasoning cubes and onion. while boiling, uziza leaf and scent leaf are blended together, with the bitter leaf blended separately. [3]

In addition to adding  palm oil and the meat stock in a pot, grounded pepper, crayfish, onion and the blended uziza-scent vegetable are allowed to cook for 2–3 minutes. Also, the blended bitter leaf is added to the thickened soup. [1]

Other foods

Black soup is eaten with fufu, Eba, Pounded yam and Semovita. [4]

See also

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References

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