Nigerian Uziza Okro soup

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Nigerian Uziza Okro soup
A plate of okro soup to be served with Soft yellow microwaved garri.
 Nigerian Uziza Okro soup. This uziza okro soup is actually the third or fourth on the blog but they are all cooked differently.
Chubby Ella posted Okro soup cooked without meat . There is a post on okro soup with ewedu leaves cooked differently from the Yoruba ewedu soup.
The okro with ewedu post has detailed step by step cooking pictures. I never liked okro until I started cooking it myself.
The recipes on this blog are good even for those who don’t like the okra vegetable. 

My uziza okra soup was stored in the freezer, after some days, was  brought out, warmed and frozen snails were cooked crunchy, chopped and added. The taste was extremely yummy before freezing and just wow after the addition of snails.
Why I forget the camera while adding those seasoned crunchy snails and even serving with microwaved eba is what I don’t know. 
AN ASIDE

Talking about microwaved eba, incase you haven’t tried it, then you have not started enjoying good eba. After making garri with hot water, which now becomes eba, there is even a post showing how to make eba from garri powder.

Place already made eba in the microwaves for some seconds or minutes, bring it out and serve, Ooh lalala there will be no remainder. When eba is microwaved, it feels even more fluffy than the one I posted on this draw soup post.

A little ground ogbono was added to this soup. A lot of people do not add onion to their okro soups because they believe onion weakens the slimy nature of okra but I love the aroma and taste onion adds to okro soups.

Tastes completely different from okro cooked without onion and mine still turns out very drawy even when ogbono is
not added. Stock fish Okro soup can be cooked with egusi lumps and if that is the case, then cook with the lumpy egusi soup recipe and then add your okro at last.

HOW TO COOK OKRO SOUP WITH UZIZA (HOT LEAF) VEGETABLES


INGREDIENTS: 
1 kg beef or goat meat
1 pack dry stock fish
2 medium sized dry cat fish
1 cup ground crayfish
8 large snails (Optional)
Locust beans (Optional)
3 kpomo (roast cow skin) Should give about 3 to 4 cups when cut into tiny pieces.
1 medium sized onion to boil the beef
1 teaspoon ground fresh pepper
One tablespoon palm oil
1 small bunch uziza
4 cups chopped okro
2 seasoning cubes
salt to taste
water, just enough to cover the meat after boiling

Before you cook this okro soup, wash and cut the vegetables and set aside. Wash the kpomo with salt to remove dirt and sand, cut into tiny pieces and set aside.

Wash snails with alum, lime or salt, add to salted boiling water, let them boil and harden before turning off the heat and setting aside to later add to your soup. Grind the crayfish and set aside.

INGREDIENTS FOR Nigerian Uziza Okro soup

  • Beef
  • Stock fish
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Onon
  • Seasoning cubes
  • Water
  • Dried catfish
  • Kpomo cut in tiny pieces
  • Palm oil (Optional)
  • Ground ogbono
  • Crayfish
  • Dadawa
  • Okro
  • Uziza leaves (just a handful of chopped leaves).

  • COOKING STEPS:

  1. Boil your meat, stock fish with salt, pepper, seasoning  and onion until almost done.  Add more water to cover the meat.
  2. Add washed catfish and kpomo now or wait till later to add the fish if you don’t want it crumbling during stirring sessions. A few drops of oil. Okro doesn’t need much oil
  3. Wait till it boils again before adding snails to make them crunchy. Cover to let snails boil and harden.
  4. Check for salt, add crayfish, dadawa  and ogbono to boiling pot of stock. Cover to boil well.
  5. Check again before finally adding your okra and green vegetables. Uziza leaf is excellent for this job.
  6. Cover for half a minute, Stir, check for salt and taste before turning off the heat. Leave the pot open to prevent vegetables overcooking.
uziza okro soup with snails
Crunchy snails in okra soup. This particular Okro soup was cooked without palm oil


This soup can be served with wheat meal, eba, pounded yam made in your food processor, starch, semovita and any form of foo foo.
For how to make eba, all you need is raw garri, boiling water and a bowl. There are about three blog posts on how to make pounded yam with a food processor.
Enjoy!

24 thoughts on “Nigerian Uziza Okro soup”

  3. 'Soft yellow microwaved garri'…….Chei see enough qualifiers for garri. u even gave a guide on how to prepare garri,ur simplicity is greatly admired. Aunty Enya u just killed me wif this fyn soup 'ringed pomo,hot leave,snail….'O my goodness, dis is SOUP.

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  5. U r rich ooo,na only rich pple go dey chop dis food,dats y all ur children are healthy looking! God bless me too.ADEYANJU

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  8. For where? Adeyanju, we don't use soup to define wealth and riches you know na? How muich is okro? How much is kpomo? Nothing really expensive there except maybe the snails which I don't buy often. Forget jare it's because the kids are around and they need to fill up the bones with some flesh before boarding house resumption. Left for me alone eh, I sometimes cook my okro with just crayfish, onion and seasoning and it tastes very good. When the kids leave for school, you notice a difference in my recipos Lolz.

    For healthy kids, my sis, it's maybe the genes and God cos if I tell you that after all the garnishing, they don't eat , you won't believe. They prefer "bread foods" to my well cooked meals.

    These girls need sanctions and force to eat soup and swallow . If I was rich eh? hmmm… You know I won't even be cooking na, paid professional chefs will be doing the job while I do the eating:)

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  10. yummy snails
    growng up, I wouldn't have liked this soup myself. I'm still the same way now sometimes. I say blend the okra abeg. Many kids find chunks of okra to be intimidating.

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  11. Cooking with blended okra is another method on it's own na. There is one where you boil whole okra and beat before adding to the soup. Different methods…

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  12. no i'm not saying only with blended okra is good. i'm saying if you're giving kids this one and they are not eating, try blending the okra. it might be because of the big cuts of okra that they don't like it. just like some kids don't like fried rice because of all the veggies inside. this method is good for grown ups

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  15. Ok Thanks, my kids love okra soup. They are not just swallow loving children. They like to chew okra. I'll try blending and share the outcome with you guys.

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