How To Make Ogbona Soup.

Ogbono Soup

Ogbono Soup, is a popular Nigerian soup recipe made with Ogbono Seeds(wild African bush mango seeds). ... which can sometimes combine it with melon(egusi) seeds to get what is called Ogbono with Egusi soup.


Ingredients for Ogbono Soup:

• Assorted Meat
• Fish
• Beef
• Shaki (cow tripe),
• Dry Fish,
• Stock fish.
• 2 handfuls Ogbono Seeds.
• 3 cooking spoons red palm oil.
• Vegetable: Frozen Spinach (you can also use Pumpkin leaves or even Bitter leaf)
• 1 handful crayfish.
• Pepper
• Salt (To taste)
• 1 medium onion.
• 2 stock cubes (Maggi/Knorr)

Ogbono Seed

Method:

Step 1

• Grind the Ogbono with a dry mill.
• Cut  spinach
• Squeeze out the excess water.
• Cook the assorted meat with the stock cubes and onion.
• If you will use Shaki, remember to start cooking that first.
• Add beef when almost done.
• Grind crayfish and pepper. Boil some water and set aside.

Step 2

• Pour the palm oil into a clean dry pot. 
• Set on the stove and melt the oil at low heat.

Note: Remember, only melt the oil, do not allow it to heat up. Once melted, turn off the heat
Add the ground Ogbono, dissolve the Ogbono in the oil.

• Add the meat/fish stock (water from cooking the assorted meat and fish).and start stirring. 

You will notice the Ogbono start to thicken and draw. Keep stirring till the Ogbono has completely absorbed the meat stock.

• Once it starts to simmer, stir every 2-3 minutes for 20 minutes. So what you'll do is: every 3 minutes or so, open the pot, stir every well, scraping the Ogbono that sticks to the base of the pot, cover the pot and cook for another 3 minutes. After 20 minutes, the Ogbono should be well cooked and you will begin to perceive its nice flavour and aroma. 
• Add the assorted meat and fish, ground crayfish, salt and pepper to taste. 
• The Ogbono may have become thicker from the cooking.
• Add a little bit more water and stir very well. 
• Cover and cook till the contents of the pot is well heated up. 
• Add a vegetable,Spinach
• Stir very well, cover the pot and turn off the heat.

Leave to stand for about 5 minutes and serve with any Fufu, eba,..etc