How About Edikang Ikong Soup For Christmas

How to Prepare a Delicious Edikang Ikong Soup for Xmas- Ladies in the House

Edikang Ikong Soup

Vegetable soup in Nigeria aside from its nutritious contents, Vitamins and eye catchy view seems one of the best dishes (soup) for a typical south eastern Nigerian.

 

Edikang Ikong or perhaps Vegetable soup as it’s always called takes about 10 mins and 30 mins for both preparation and cooking respectively.

It is particular to the natives of Akwa Ibom, Cross River and the Efiks but now almost welcomed by ALL due to its nutritional contents

The soup is prepared with enough quantity of water leaves and the popular Pumpkin leaves (Ugwu) as making it so nourishing and most times recommended by Doctors as a recipe especially for quick recovery after a long ailment.

Ingredients

·         500g water leaves

·         1kg Pumpkin Leaves

·         2 medium bulbs Onions

·         2-3 stock cubes

·         Pepper,

·         Salt

·         Crayfish

·         200ml palm oil

·         Periwinkle

·         Beef (600g),

·         Kanda, shake and dry fish

(The items listed above depends solely on the taste of the individual as other vegetables such as Spinach, Grind frozen spinach and Lambs lettuce could be used as alternatives rather than the traditional pumpkin and water leave

Direction

• Wash and cut the leaves (Pumpkin leaves and Water leaves or its alternatives) into tiny pieces
•  Drain out all the water in them as much as possible by putting them in separate sieves
• Cook the Beef, Dry fish and kanda (make sure you cut the Kanda into small pieces) with bulbs of diced Onions and 3 cubes of maggi (i.e. Knor cubes).
•  Add as little water as possible
• When the meat is done, add a generous amount of palm Oil, pepper and crayfish and allow to boil for about 10 mins 
•  Remember that the Palm Oil serves as water in the Edikan Ikong Soup and at such should  be at minimal

  

  
  

  Edikang Ikong Soup

  
  

• Add the periwinkle and water leaves and leave to cook for another 5 minutes but bear in mind that the water leaves should not be over cooked.
• Add the pumpkin Leaves and Salt to taste
•  Do the final stirring of the Pot and turn off the heat. Cover the pot and leave the soup to stand for another 5 minutes
• Now the soup is ready to be served with Semolina, Amala, Pounded yam and or Eba
• Its Christmas and not just Rice Christmas as usual

Must you eat Rice?

Try out this wonderful recipe for your family this Xmas and make that change!

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