today I will be making a special and lovable vegan soup vegetable soup for my family members coming over for dinner today
Let’s get to it Vegetable soup is paired with any of the swallows in Nigeria and served as either lunch or dinner. This recipe shows you how to cook a healthy soup with vegetables (ugu and water leaves) the Nigerian way. love this soup for many reasons:
For starters, I made it with vegetables, and those are synonymous with health.
In Nigeria, we combine different vegetables to make different soups.
Okra soup, Afang soup and even edikaikong are different combinations of different veggies.
Veggies are good for the heart and body cells
Ingredients for Vegetable Soup
Big bowl Waterleaves
Big bowl ugu leaves (fluted pumpkin)
Roasted mackerel
6 scotch bonnet peppers
400ml Palm oil
2 seasoning cubes
Salt to taste
2 tablespoons Ground Ofor
Preaparation
Step 1
Slice the water leaves and fluted pumpkin leaves with a kitchen knife, you want them thinly sliced as you can see below.
What you find below is a bowl of fluted pumpkin leaves – vegetables.
This is the equivalent of 12 cups. You should wash ugu (fluted pumpkin) properly before slicing them.
Vegetables
This is a bowl of sliced water leaves – the equivalent of 15 cups.
Water leaves
You can wash the water leaves after slicing them. Wash the leaves properly and transfer into a sieve to strain excess water.
You don’t want too much water in your vegetable soup.
Step 3
Wash the roasted fish, remove center bone and break to smaller bits as you can see below.
Preaparation
Step 1
Slice the water leaves and fluted pumpkin leaves with a kitchen knife, you want them thinly sliced as you can see below.
What you find below is a bowl of fluted pumpkin leaves – vegetables.
This is the equivalent of 12 cups. You should wash ugu (fluted pumpkin) properly before slicing them. How to Cook Vegetable Soup
Step 4
To the boiling meat, add the washed, roasted fish. Allow them to cook until the water dries. Don’t allow it to burn.
Most people don’t like too much water in their vegetable soup, to achieve that, use some tricks – like boiling the meat/fish till the water is almost dried.
Step 5
When the meat cooked and the water is almost completely dried, add the palm oil, 400ml. You need lots of palm oil when you cook vegetable soup. Step 6
Now you add the vegetables, the water leaves should come first. It should fill the pot, it will go down in 3 minutes as you continue to stir.
