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Hello everyone, I am please to be here to share one of my favorites soup but I didn't know how to cook this particular soup but anytime I go to the restaurant and the sale it, I must option for it.

This is one of the healthy leaves that a lot of people don't know, it has a lot of healthy benefits

Editan soup is classified among vegetable leaves, it is one of my native soup in my place that is the efik, this leave is very bitter so for one to remove the bitterness you have to wash and squeeze the water out or if you don't want to wash it out you can add bicarbonate and it will remove the bitterness.

The two methods of cooking editan soup as I had already mentioned depends on individual choices. Like myself I love my editan soup to be the way it is but I will add bicarbonate so as to help remove the bitterness but for the healthy benefits will still be the way it's supposed to be.

Cooking editan soup, one has to be fully prepared because it requires a lot of ingredients for the soup to stand out.

Here are the ingredients I used in cooking my editan soup, I will list out the price of ingredients both in naira and steem price

INGREDIENTS	STEEM PRICE	NAIRA
Editan leaves	1.94 steem	500 NGN
Meat	15.56 steem	4000 NGN
Red oil	3.11 steem	800 NGN
Crayfish	3.11 steem	800 NGN
Fresh pepper	1.94 steem	500 NGN
Cow back	3.89 steem	1000 NGN
Fish	3.89 steem	1000 NGN
Stockfish	7.78 steem	2000 NGN
Perewinkle	1.1 steem	300 NGN
Seasoning cubes	1.1 steem	300 NGN
Adusa leaves	0.77 steem	200 NGN
Onions	0.77 steem	200 NGN
TOTAL	45. steem	11,600 NGN

The first steps is for you to prepare all your ingredients and keep aside

Gather all your proteins, wash them very , make sure that there is no sand, and your pepper, onions, seasoning cubes. Make sure your seasoning cubes and every other ingredient must be enough, this is to bring out the taste from your proteins. When you are done with the seasoning of meat, make sure that after few minutes, it is advisable to add enough water so as to allow the meat to be soft

Step two is that since you bought the editan leaves in the market it is advisable to wash it, that is after slicing the leaves. Then grand it, this method requires a cool water, after rinsing the leaves, then put it in the pot then add enough water and put it on the fire, add your bicarbonate and allow it to cook until the bitterness is no longer there then you add your proteins.

Like for the fish, there is this particular common fish that I use in cooking the soup and it gave me that sweet taste that I was looking for. The fish was so sweet.

So I added the fish immediately after adding my proteins, then I added red oil, crayfish and and my seasoning cubes, I allow it to cook for few minutes then I added my adusa leaves and then my soup was ready.

This soup is always very greenish no matter the amount of oil you add, it will not still show.

So guys you can decide to eat it with any swallow of your choice.

So guys thanks for reading my content, thanks to ngoenyi for coming up with this amazing content and I happened to fall into cooking.