African Bitter Leaf Soup

Hello everyone in this community, am really happy to be here and to share my recipe with everyone.

Am new here and I want to share my African recipe on making bitter leaf Soup and I hope you have a great time reading through it.

Ingredients

Bitter Leaf
Periwinkle
Crayfish and pepper pounded together
Melon
Maggie
Onions
Salt very much important for taste
Waterleaf
Red oil
Stockfish, dry fish and kpomo meat all in the pot, well wash and ready for steaming.

All are shown below in these pictures 👇👇

How to prepare the meal

Before you start, have to wash your hands and cover your hair especially for the ladies.

Then you start by steaming your meat alongside the stockfish a d dried fish to dry the water in them and bring out that the taste you need from it.

Thereafter steaming, you put the amount of water you want for the soup and allow it to boil.

When it has boiled, you now introduce your waterleaf and allow for 2 minute's. Then you put in your ingredients like crayfish, pepper, salt, Maggie and onions.

At this point you can introduce your red oils to steer the spirit of the soup (lolz). Add melon and allow it to cook for some minute, thereafter you can put your periwinkle.

Let's say after 3 minutes the condiments might have given out their taste for the soup in their right proportion.

You can now introduce the bitter leaf to make it the soup you wanted and you stir to mix and allow it to cook before you scoup to serve.

And you can serve with it with your poundo, garri or even fofo which is more preferable in this part of west Africa, Nigeria in Akwa ibom state.

Remember, it's is best served hot or sometimes warm depending on the time and situation of eating the meal.

That's how I prepare mine, try yours today 👍