Share your food diaries, Review, and Adventures: Preparing Draw Soup

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In my post today I will be showing you how I prepared my draw soup (Okro & okpono). Okro soup is very easy to prepare and with less cost, I cooked it frequently especially when I'm financially down, as it will not cost me to break my bank account.

Firstly, I will start by putting down all the ingredients I used in preparing my okro soup below.

My ingredients

• Cow skin (ikpa)

• Periwinkle (shell)

• Dried fish ( nsat iyak)

• Okro

• Ogbono

• Stockfish

• Pumpkin

• Ozuza

• Fresh pepper

• Red oil

• Salt

• Stock cube

• Onions

There are two different methods of preparing okro soup, the frying method and the traditional method. It was the traditional method I used in cooking mine.

I started by washing my cow skin, Stockfish and dried fish into the pot, seasoned it with stock cube, fresh pepper, onions and salt then cooked it for about 5 -7minutes for the cow skin (ikpa) to tender.

Putting periwinkle into the pot

While the meat was on fire, I pounded the crayfish and set it aside, then I chop the okro into the mortal and pounded it few hands, without letting it to draw well.

I also sliced the floated pumpkin leaves and ozuza leaves and set aside too.

My prepared ingredients

When the meat was soften enough, I added the quantity of water I needed and pour in red oil, stir it and allowed to boil for about 2- 3minutes.

Before then I have dissolved the grinded Ogbono with hot water, then I pour it into the pot.

Putting Okro

I allowed it to boil for 2minutes, then I put the pounded okro into the pot, stir it all together and allowed it steam for 2 -3minutes.

Then after I put pounded crayfish and stir it well, and Periwinkle.

Putting crayfish

The next thing I put was my sliced pumpkin leaves and stir it well and allowed it to simmer for 2minutes.

Putting the pumpkin leaves

After that 2minutes I then put the sliced ozuza leaves, stir it all together and cover the pot slightly for 1 minutes to simmer.

Putting the ozuza leaves

That was the last ingredient I put, then I turned of the gas and allowed it to simmer there, my soup is ready.

My draw soup is ready