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

References

  1. 1 2 "How To Prepare Delicious Edo State Black Soup". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2020-03-22. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  2. ↑ "That Edo Black Soup". Tribune Online. 2021-03-27. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  3. ↑ omotolani (2018-03-20). "How to cook black soup". Pulse Nigeria. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  4. ↑ "Edo Black Soup Recipe (#1 Ultimate way)". FitNigerian. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2022-06-26.


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