How To Cook Ogbono Soup Without Meat

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How to cook ogbono soup without meat. We loved this recipe of ogbono soup without meat.

There are two types of ogbono in the market. The one that is harvested during
the rainy season around July and the other harvested during the dry season around November. The rainy season ogbono gets thick in soups but not as drawy as the dry season type.
Fresh Ogbono that is harvested in the dry season is the very good type. A little of it gives so much. This type does not require you to add much to the soup. 
 
Dry season ogbono also has the ability to keep being very gummy and drawy even after long periods. The one harvested during the rainy season tends to stop being drawy after some time.
 

It is best to buy ogbono around December, January and even anytime before July August. Not that the other one is not good o, after all it can give you a thicker pot of soup than the dry season type. Sellers know the difference but may not help cos they want to sell their goods. Both are good anyway.

Nigerian Ogbono soup can actually be cooked without meat. The taste doesn’t change. Cooking with meat helps to enhance the taste of any soup.
What happens when you buy meat and forget it at the butcher’s, when you open the freezer to take meat and discover it was exhausted without your knowledge.

WHEN YOU NEED TO COOK OGBONO SOUP WITHOUT MEAT

Or when you bring out your meat and realize that it is getting worse because the voltage wasn’t high enough to keep it frozen or when there is just no meat anywhere and your school allowance and pocket money is running out? 
 
You can still eat healthy and delicious if you have just your crayfish and fish at home.
 

This draw soup tasted so good. I will do it again! I wish I had added periwinkle, but don’t really regret much cos mfi this days is so over salted that you have to wash with gallons of water before cooking else you end up with a pond of salt as soup. Stockfish can also be added.

INGREDIENTS FOR MAKING OGBONO SOUP WITHOUT MEAT
1 cup ground ogbono
3 large dry catfish
4 large kpomo cut into smaller pieces
3 knorr cubes
Salt to taste
3 fresh pepper or more depending on how much you love peppers
1 small onion to boil the fish and kpomo
1/2 cup palm oil
One cup ground crayfish
1 small bunch ugu (fluted pumpkin vegetable)
5 cups water (250ml *5) You can add more water as you cook if the soup is thicker than you want.

 

You might also like: How to cook ogbono (ogbolor) soup with meat.

 

BELOW IS RECIPE COOKING STEPS

Was and boil smoked fish

  • and kpomo in the pot with onion, pepper and salt. 
  • Add crushed seasoning cubes, water and salt 
  • A little palm oil to soup after it boils.
  • Let palm oil boil very well before pouring in your ground ogbono and crayfish. 

 

  • Add green ugu vegetable ( ugu fluted pumpkin vegetable) after ogbono  boils well and bubbles.
  • Check for salt after putting the green vegetables in soup.
  • Ugu vegetable mixes in for a few seconds before the heat is turned off

Large pot of ogbono soup
How To Cook Ogbono Soup Without Meat


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34 thoughts on “How To Cook Ogbono Soup Without Meat”

  1. eya,tnx so much,in these challenging times,innovations n informations like dis help d fmly budget,i cant wait,am fixing dis 4 madam n d kids today today,i don go mket o!

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  2. Hv been frying my ogbono long bfr i got married…neva knew d essence of fryn it,till now.
    Thnks fr d ogbono,cooked wtout meat while in sch
    BTW..i heard tomato paste cn b added t egwusi soup,if true,abeg teach us

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  3. Good one Eya. Have you tried adding makerel fish and then eating with agidi/eko. I think it tastes really yummy. Well done

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  4. Different methods I read everyday!
    I fry mine before adding to the boiling point of ingredients.

    Aunty Eya, I noticed you added chopped onions to the boiling stock. I was told adding onions will kill the drawing power of the Ogbono. I guess yours was immuned to the power of the onions.

    Aunty, have you tried cooking Ogbono without vegetable leaves? I'm sorry everyone to spoil your appetite but it look like watery faeces!

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  5. I put mine in hot oil, not by frying it and boy, its dissolves…it does not have the look yours is having now.
    Onion I heard is not good buh mehn I still put it in my boilling stock.

    Dried meat is also perfect.
    Ogbono likes drying meat and fish.
    Love me some Ogbono soup any time of d day…adding bitter leave makes me love it d more

    Nice one aunty Eya

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  6. Agreed that there are two types of ogbono but u totally got tHe harvest tin wrong. The good one is d real ogbono from the same type of docanut but the outer part can't be eaten. The oda one has a sweet outer fruit but the nut inside is less slimmy and comes out looking like tired. U can buy ogbono at anytime but knowing the good one is d issue. Also, if its in season like everyoda food stuff, its cheaper at dat time. I kn this cos I grew up in Edo and ogbono is our main soup. Well done Eya, ur soup looks nice. sandy

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  7. Aunty eya, hav u tried using uziza in ogbono soup, I tell u, its d bomb! Add a little chopped uziza jux before d ugu,make sure its original uziza, fake is too much esp here in d east. How to kno gud uziza: cut a little leaf frm d bunch of uziza and squeeze it wit ur fingers den smell, if u percieve dt unique uziza smell den its d ryt one, if nt check d next seller. And @dimma u can use tomato paste to cook egusi soup, some ppl do bt I use fresh tomato, I chop and saute jux before I fry d egusi, it reduces d sour taste of d egusi and gives it dt reddish sexy colour dt u only see on maggi tv commercials. Lol. Ruthy

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  8. @Rubynnia, I am so addicted to boiling meat, fish, snail and everything with onion before cooking. Yes dear, mine was immune to it.
    Ogbono without vegetables taste very good if you add a lot of roughly ground cray fish.

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  9. Hi Omgekofo, me, I wonder who is saying onion is not good, how do we then boil our meat, onion helps to soften meat fast and gives it's own flavour to food. Onion lowers cholesterol level. I love onion so much I chew it raw when I know I'm not going out.
    I will try adding bitterleaf. Dry bush meat is the best for this soup with a lot of crayfish and smoked fish.
    Thank you.

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