Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, ewedu soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ewedu soup in a yoruba land is one of the most popular soup, learn how to make this soup with ewedu leaves and all the other ingredients used in the process. Ewedu soup is a slimy vegetable prepared by the Yoruba's and is known to have so many nutritional values. Ewedu soup is a simple Nigerian dish made with ewedu leaves (also known as jute or molokhia leaves) as the key ingredient. The leaves are typically simmered in boiling water with ingredients such.
Ewedu Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Ewedu Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ewedu soup using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ewedu Soup:
- Take Ewedu leaves (corchorus olitorius/Jute)
- Prepare Potash (A small sized stone or 1/2 tsp if powdered)
- Make ready Ijabe (Ewedu Broom) or a blender
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 1 cube seasoning
- Take Egusi
- Take A few pieces of whole Crayfish
- Make ready 2 tablespoon Egusi (ground melon seeds)
- Get 2-3 teaspoons ground crayfish
This soup is indigenous to Ewedu soup is the most loved dish by Yorubas. Do you want to date a Yoruba person, then you may. Ewedu is green leafy vegetable that is paired with stew for swallow. Other names for Ewedu include Jute leaves and Molokhai.
Instructions to make Ewedu Soup:
- You can either buy fresh ewedu leaves this means that you have to pick the leaves from the stem, as you only need the leaves. Or you can buy the frozen leaves from the Asian/ African grocery shop, this would have have been picked. I have used the fresh one and I've picked and washed the leaves. Place the water in a pot, add a small stone of potash or 1/2 tsp of potash and bring water to boil.
- Pour in the washed ewedu leaves and leave to continue boiling in the water, until soft.
- Check to see if the leaves have soften once the are soft enough, pour this in the blender (or you can use what we call Ijabe (this is like a small short broom) to manually chop the leaves). Otherwise, pour in a blender and use the pulse button "P" a couple of times to chop the leaves, you don't want this all smooth.
- Otherwise, pour in a blender and use the pulse button "P" a couple of times to chop the leaves, you don't want this all smooth.
- Pulse a few time until thoroughly chopped but not smooth.
- Pour the soup back in the pot and place back on heat, add the iru (locust beans)
- Add some cray fish, it better to use the ground crayfish. Add 2 tablespoon of grounded egusi (grounded melon seeds, this is optional) you can have it plain if you prefer.
- Add salt and seasoning cube to taste. Please note that you need to be fast as possible so the the soup still maintains its greens and still drawy. The beauty of ewedu is in its drawiness i.e its sliminess (if there's any word as such)
- Ewedu is usually paired with its twin sister "Gbegiri" and eaten along with Amala. It was once said that if yoruba people were to have their own flag it will be in the colours of these 2 soup, "Ewedu & Gbegiri" Ewedu is a very rich source of folic acid, my grandma used to make me just eat or lets say drink this soup on its own being anaemic. In recent times, the health benefits of ewedu has come to light, it has been known to include vitamins such Vitamin A, B & C and high in fibre.
- Here's a picture of the potash. I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial, and that you will try it. Good lUck
Ewedu is green leafy vegetable that is paired with stew for swallow. Other names for Ewedu include Jute leaves and Molokhai. It is mostly popular with Abula and also as soup for weaning babies. 'Ewedu' soup is the ideal soup for the whole family. It is a very popular soup among the Yoruba speaking people of Nigeria. There was a food post on this blog, where I wished that I know how to cook some other soups like ewedu and gbegiri.
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