Toady, I share with you a straightforward way to cook marugbo soup.

There are two major types of black soup recipes in Nigeria. There is black soup from Edo state and black soup from Ondo state.

This black soup recipe is on how to cook black soup from Ondo state.

Marugbo soup is the name of the type of black soup cooked by the people of Ondo state especially from the Ikale and Ilaje region.

It is called marugbo soup because of the major ingredients used for its cooking is called marugbo leaves.

In this recipe I will share with you how to use marugbo powder to cook.

Marugbo

The marugbo plant is a rare plant that is mostly accessed in the Ikale and Ilaje region.

As a result, many people miss out on this delicacy because of lack of access to the key ingredient.

Thankfully, cooking has now been made easy because marugbo soup can now be easily cooked with marugbo powder.

For better context, marugbo powder is a gotten from marugbo leaves. The process is quite simple, the leaves are washed, dried and blended to powder form.

Nowadays, many people prefer this powder form because it is easily accessible. Also, because it has a long shelf life as long as it is stored in a cool, dry place.

The ingredients stated below are all you need to easily cook this simple Nigerian black soup from the comfort of your home.

I would also share with you the shop where I got my own marugbo powder.

Black soup ingredients

• Half cup marugbo powder
• 1 tables spoon scent leaf powder
• 2 onions
• 1 scotch bonnet pepper
• half tablespoon salt
• 2 seasoning cubes
• 1 liter water
• 8 beef tripe
• 5 ponmo – cow skin
• 5 cow foot
• 1/3 cup palm oil

This soup can be cooked with with any type of protein just as can be seen in this Marugbo soup recipe where chicken was used.

It is important to state that contrary to general practice when seasoning and cooking meat, curry powder and thyme are not used to cook the meat for marugbo soup.

Visit this shop if you would like to get marugbo powder delivered to you in the United Kingdom, United States of America or Canada.

You can also get other ingredients for your Nigerian food recipes there.

Going forward, I will stated the details of how to use marugbo powder to cook marugbo soup.

How to cook marugbo soup

• Peel the onions and clean the scotch bonnet, then blend to a rough texture
• Put the cleaned tripe, cow skin and cow foot into your pot
• Add the onions and pepper mix made earlier
• Season with salt and seasoning cubes
• Add 0.4 litre of water and cook for 30 minutes or till the meat is very soft
• Pour half cup of marugbo powder and 1 tablespoon scent leaf powder
• Stir well till the powders combine well with the boiled meat.
• Add 0.6 litre water and 1/3 cup of palm oil
• Mix well and cook for 10 minutes on medium heat .

Marugbo soup is ready to be enjoyed

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