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.
Origin
The Benin soup is popular in Edo State, although it can be taken by anyone in Nigeria.
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.
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.
Other foods
Black soup is eaten with fufu, Eba, Pounded yam and Semovita.
See also
References
- ^ "How To Prepare Delicious Edo State Black Soup". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2020-03-22. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- "That Edo Black Soup". Tribune Online. 2021-03-27. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- omotolani (2018-03-20). "How to cook black soup". Pulse Nigeria. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- "Edo Black Soup Recipe (#1 Ultimate way)". FitNigerian. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2022-06-26.