There is a popular Yoruba sating that it is the woman who knows how to prepare sweet soup that gets to keep the husband.
The way to a man’s heart is best through his belly, hence, every woman needs know how to cook, if she must be able to keep her man.
Below are 7 great Nigerian soups with which many ladies have been able to either keep their men, or steal some other person’s husband.
7. Ofe Nsala
REQUIREMENTS
-1½kg Chicken or goat meat
– 1 large Fresh fish or smoked fish
– 1 medium slice Yam
– 2 tablespoons Crayfish (ground)
– 1 teaspoon Ehuru
– ½ teaspoon Uziza seeds (ground)
– 1 tablespoon Dry pepper (ground)
– 2 Maggi cubes
– 1 litre Water
– Salt To taste
6. Efo riro
Ingredients
4 bunches of spinach
Fresh tomatoes (6 medium)
Onion (1 medium)
1 yellow scotch bonnet also called yellow atarodo (optional)
1 Tablespoon locust beans/iru (optional)
4 Fish cutlets (any white fish)
Stock fish (optional)
Ponmo (Optional)
Ground crayfish (2 tablespoons)
Lamb, chicken or beef. 1 cup of chicken
Beef or lamb stock
Smoked haddock or smoked mackerel(50g)
Palm oil (100ml)
5. Edikang Ikong
Ingredients
4 bunches of spinach
Fresh tomatoes (6 medium)
Onion (1 medium)
1 yellow scotch bonnet also called yellow atarodo (optional)
1 Tablespoon locust beans/iru (optional)
4 Fish cutlets (any white fish)
Stock fish (optional)
Ponmo (Optional)
Ground crayfish (2 tablespoons)
Lamb, chicken or beef. 1 cup of chicken
Beef or lamb stock
Smoked haddock or smoked mackerel(50g)
Palm oil (100ml)
4. Ofe Onugbo
Ingredients
2 Litre Soup Size
Prepared by Expert Chefs
Excellent Service
Healthy Environment
Warm ambience
3. Banga Soup
REQUIREMENTS
– 1Kg assorted parts of meat (shaki, cow leg/foot, kpomo, beef)
– 1 medium size stockfish head
– Bush meat
– 1 big dry fish
– 6 medium size snails (washed with lime or alum)
– 2-3kg Oil palm nuts (banga)
– 1 Cooking spoon ground crayfish
– 3 teaspoon dry pepper
– ½ teaspoon Atariko seed (ground)
– ½ teaspoon Beletete (crushed)
– 1 tablespoon Dried bitter leaves(crushed)
– Okro (optional)
– 1 milk tin periwinkles (shelled)
– Salt
– 2 cubes seasoning of choice
2. Afang Soup
REQUIREMENTS
– 1Kg assorted parts of meat (shaki, cow leg/foot, kpomo, beef)
– 1 medium size stockfish head
– Bush meat
– 1 big dry fish
– 6 medium size snails (washed with lime or alum)
– 2-3kg Oil palm nuts (banga)
– 1 Cooking spoon ground crayfish
– 3 teaspoon dry pepper
– ½ teaspoon Atariko seed (ground)
– ½ teaspoon Beletete (crushed)
– 1 tablespoon Dried bitter leaves(crushed)
– Okro (optional)
– 1 milk tin periwinkles (shelled)
– Salt
– 2 cubes seasoning of choice
1 Ofe Owerri
Ingredients
Cow (assorted meat) 1.5kg
6-15 snails
Dry fish 2 medium sizes
Stock fish head (medium size)
1 cup of sliced Uziza leaves
4 cups of sliced fluted pumpkin leaves
3 cubes of maggi or knorr
Cocoyam (ede) see image
1 cup of palm oil
1 spoon of ogiri (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
