How To Prepare Okro Soup
One of the many questions an average Nigerian will look out for is how to prepare okro soup.
This is because Okro soup is one the healthy soup for family consumption.
It is so easy to make and absolutely stress-free.
How to prepare your Okro soup may simply follow your available ingredients and you will be able to tweak as you like.
You can take it plain or you can include so many varieties to make it richer.
Nigerians love having either dairy, beef or seafood included in our stew, soup or meal. You can consider that as you earn how to prepare Okro Soup. It will make the soup even more interesting.
Okro is a very healthy vegetable that contains a lot of vitamins that are very beneficial to human beings.
It helps prevents colon cancer, diabetes, constipation, anaemia. It aids weight loss, improves eyesight etc.
Below are 2 different Okro Soup recipe for your enjoyment:
How to prepare Okro Soup – Recipe 1
Ingredients
Okro – 4
Smoked mackerel
Dry fish
Stockfish
Goat Meat
Blended crayfish – 3 Tsp
Scotch bonnet – 2
Cameroon pepper – 1 tsp
Onions – 1 big
Stock cube – 1
Locust beans (locally called Iru)
Palm oil – 2 cooking spoon
Pumpkin leaf – (or any vegetable)
How to prepare Okro Soup
Wash your goat meat very well. Add some seasoning to your preference.
Boil your goats and set aside.
Wash your stock fish thoroughly. Boil it until it’s soft. Debone and set aside.
Clean and debone the smoked mackerel
Wash your dry fish. Pour hot water into it to soften it. Debone and set aside
Wash your okro. Chop or blend or grate it into very tiny pieces. Place in a bowl and set aside.
Wash and chop your onions, peppers. Set aside in a bowl
Place pot on the fire. Pour oil and add onions. Let it fry for few seconds on a low medium heat.
Add your locust beans, crayfish, and chopped pepper. Stir and allow it fry for few minutes.
Add Cameroon pepper, smoked mackerel, goat meat, kpomo (cow skin), chopped onions and stock cube. Stir together to combine.
Allow it cook for 5 minutes or more.
Pour your chopped okro, stir to combine and allow it to cook for a few minutes.
Add your pumpkin leaves and reduce heats.
Allow it simmer and yes, your soup is ready. This is how to create Okro Soup.
You can take it fufu, Eba or any swallow of your choice.
How to prepare Okro Soup – Recipe 2
Ingredients
Okro – 4
Beef
Cowskin (kpomo)
Scotch bonnet – 1
Yellow pepper – 1
Onions – 1
Stockfish
Smoked mackerel
Crayfish – 3 tsp
Locust beans
Stock cube – 1 small
Palm oil – 2 cooking spoon
Beef stock
How to prepare Okro Soup
Wash and boil your kpomo and beef. Season according to your preference (boil your kpomo like 10 minutes earlier than beef). Set aside.
Wash and chop your peppers. Set aside
Wash and boil your stock fish till soft. Debone and set aside.
Clean your mackerel and debone. Set aside
Place pot on fire on a medium heat.
Pour the beef, cow skin stockfish, smoked mackerel, chopped pepper, locusts beans, palm oil, crayfish, chicken stock.
Check the taste before you add the stock cube. Stir together and allow it to cook for 10 minutes.
Add the okro to it. Stir to combine everything together.
Allow it to cook for a few minutes.
You can add vegetables if you wish.
Just allow it simmer once you do.
It’s ok after 1 minute. This is how to prepare Okro Soup.