Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, food prep for okro/ogbono soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ogbono is botanically called Irvingia gabonensis, a species of African trees that bear edible mango-like fruits. The fruits are very rich in fat and protein. When ground, ogbono is prepared as soup with other condiments and eaten with fufu or pounded yam. It is a typical African dish made with ground ogbono seeds but with variation depending on the locality.

Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook food prep for okro/ogbono soup using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup:

1. Prepare Okro A full bowl
2. Take Protein :kpomo,Cow leg, Goat meat,Stock Fish: gbonga fish
3. Make ready Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leaves aka ugwu and uziza leaf
4. Prepare Ground crayfish
5. Take Iru
6. Make ready Pepper : Yellow and Red pepper, Bawa aka chilli pepper
7. Get Kitchen glory veg spice (1 satchet)
8. Prepare Stock cubes to taste (3 - 5)
9. Get to taste Salt

So if you want your soup to be mainly Okra soup, you can decrease the quantity of Ogbono and increase the quantity of okra and vice versa. Okra Soup is one of the quickest and easiest Nigerian soups to prepare. Some argue that a lot of work goes to the cutting of the two vegetables used in preparing this recipe. Yes but once the vegetables are ready; it cooks in no time at all.

Steps to make Food prep for Okro/Ogbono soup:

1. Wash your protein of choice, stock fish,Kpomo,dry fish. Put in a clean pot then spice it with sliced onions and stock cube. Put your Ogbono in a small bowl,mix it with palm oil and place it inside the pot for the Ogbono to get smooth. Remove it. Cook till meat is soft. Then bring down from fire.
2. Pour the red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil melts(don't allow it bleach,it should just turn translucent),add the sliced onions and fry for sometime,add the okro, pepper and iru to the mix,then fry.
3. Add the meat/fish stock (water from cooking the fish and meat), Add the Ogbono then stir the okro mix. Still too thick? you can add a little hot water in the same way till you get the consistency you want.
4. Top up the water when necessary. If you don't stir it, it will burn. Dont cook for long so its still fresh. Add the ground crayfish(reason it's added now is so it doesn't burn the soup). Stir and add the sliced Uziza leaves, then add the Nigerian pumpkin leaves.
5. Stir very well and add the cooked stockfish,Meat is added if it's for personal use.
6. Leave to simmer and it is done! - The perfect swallow for Okro/Ogbono Soup is Pounded Yam. You can also serve it with Eba (Garri), Amala, Semolina Fufu,  or Cassava Fufu.

Some argue that a lot of work goes to the cutting of the two vegetables used in preparing this recipe. Yes but once the vegetables are ready; it cooks in no time at all. Ogbono Okra soup is a popular Nigerian soup made with African Mango seeds (Ogbono). Ogbono Okra soup is simply Ogbono soup with Okra incorporated. I already have a recipe for Ogbono soup on the blog, Click HERE to view the recipe.

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