How to cook ogbono soup with spinach

In this detailed ogbono soup recipe, I will share with you the ingredients for ogbono soup as well as the step-by-step method on how to use the listed ingredients to prepare ogbono soup.

What is ogbono soup?

This delicacy is called ‘Obe Apon’ in Yoruba language but the general name for this draw soup. This draw soup usually contains an assortment of different types of proteins such as beef, fish, chicken, goat meat, stock fish and many more.

This Nigerian dish can be cooked using two methods which are;

The frying method.
The second method is the quick and easy method I will explain to you in this blog post.

Also, this delicious delicacy can be cooked alone or with different types exotic Nigerian vegetables. Here is a list of some vegetables that you can used.

Ogbono and okro soup
Ogbono with scent leaves – Efirin leaves
Ogbono with Ewedu leaves – Jute leaves
Ogbono with bitter leaf soup
Ogbono soup with ugu leaves
Ogbono with spinach

In this blog post, I will be explaining the steps in cooking Ogbono soup with spinach because that is my vegetable of choice.

Ogbono seed

This soup is a rich Nigerian delicacy with slimy and sticky texture and the main ingredient is ogbono seeds. But if you don’t know what ogbono seeds look like, come along with me as I Share with you how to cook this delicious soup.

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So, there are different names for ogbono seeds such as mbukpap uyo, bush mango or dika and I would share with you a picture of what Ogbono seeds look like as well as how it is processed to achieve the product with which ogbono soup is cooked.

Also there are different ingredients for cooking this delicious draw soup, here is a list of the ingredients I will be using.

Ogbono soup ingredients

Palm oil
Ogbono seeds
Cameroon pepper
Horse mackerel fish
Chicken (cooked)
Chicken stock
Crayfish powder
Spinach leaves
Seasoning cubes
Salt
Water

The specific measurements for these ingredients are stated in the cooking procedure.

Before I continue with the necessary steps for this recipe, I would like inform you that you can get the ingredients listed above in this food shop.

How to cook Ogbono soup

Clean your chicken
Then use the steps and ingredients here to prepare the cleaned chicken.
After cooking the chicken with the steps outlined in the referred blog post, set aside
Cut the fishes into you preferred sizes and number
Clean the fishes properly with water – ensure that the fins, gills and insides of al the fishes are properly cleaned.
With a dry mill, blend the ogbono seeds to powder
You can also buy freshly blended ogbono powder here
Measure ½ cup of the blended ogbono into a small bowl
Add 120ml of palm oil into the bowl of ogbono
Mix well till you get a silky texture and set aside
Clean the spinach leaves well with water
Cut the vegetable into chucks and set aside
Set your cooker to medium heat
Add 4 cups of water into a pot
Put the cleaned fishes into water
Season with 4 tbsp of crayfish powder, 1 seasoning cube, 1 tsp salt, 1tbp Cameroon pepper
Mix well and cook for 5-10 minutes on medium heat
After 10 minutes, remove the fishes and set aside.
Add the boiled chicken and stock from the cooked chicken chicken to the pot
Stir, cover and allow to boil for 5-6 minutes
Put the ogbono and palm oil paste in the hot mixture
Ensure the ogbono paste dissolves well
Mix and cook for 1-2 minute to ascertain the thickness of the soup
Add more water and mix well till the desire sliminess and texture is achieved – to see the suggested texture, watch the video recipe attached to this blog post.
When the perfect consistency has been achieved, add 1-2 seasoning cubes, ½ tsp salt to the soup
Stir well and cook for 3-5 minutes on medium heat
Then add the spinach, mix well and add the boiled fish
Allow to cook for 2-3 minutes