Recipe of the Day, Week No. 50: (Vegetable Soup Recipe)

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I will be sharing recipe of Edikang Ikong soup (vegetable soup). It is rich and nutritious recipe that was originated from Akwa Ibom state ( South-south part of Nigeria). When you hear of Edikang Ikong soup, pumpkin leaf which is the main ingredient should come into your mind.

Raw ingredients

Let's see all the necessary ingredients used;

• Pumpkin leaf
• Water leaf
• Goat meat
• Cow skin
• Dried fish
• Fresh pepper
• Onions
• Maggi
• Salt
• Palm oil
• Stock fish
• Periwinkle
• Crayfish

Preparation Procedures

Step 1: wash, season meat with fresh pepper, salt, maggi, onions and a little water and steam till it gets soft.

Seasoned meat

Step 2: Add stock fish and cow skin and continue steaming.

Steaming process

Step 3: Add water leaf and palm oil to the meat and cover to boil.

Adding water leaf	Adding palm oil

Step 4: Add maggi, salt and pepper.

Maggi cubes	Fresh pepper

Step 5: After two minutes, add dried fish to the soup and allow the ingredients boil properly before adding periwinkle.

Adding fish	Adding periwinkle

Step 6: Add pumpkin leaf and crayfish, let it boil for just two minutes on low heat.

Adding pumpkin leaf	Adding crayfish

The vegetable should be freshly cooked. The soup was ready in now time.

Ready!

After preparing this delicious pot of goodness, I served it with swallow (garri). Other kinds of swallow like; pounded yam, fufu or semovita can go with it and also white rice.

Served!

Vegetable soup is an expensive meal, to get a complete richness of this recipe, you must spend both time and money. The complete ingredients for this soup were purchased with the sum of #16,000 ( 59.3 steem).

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