Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, edika-ikong soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Edika-Ikong Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Edika-Ikong Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Edikaikong soup has over the years topped the list of Nigerian popular soups because of its nutritional value and ease of preparation. Before you cook the Edikaikong Soup. Wash and cut the pumpkin and water leaves into tiny pieces.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have edika-ikong soup using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Edika-Ikong Soup:
- Make ready 1 kg Beef (cleaned and cut in medium sizes)
- Take 5 pcs Cow-leg(properly cleaned)
- Prepare 4 pcs Ponmo (cow skin; cleaned)
- Take 4 pcs Smoked fish (cleaned and deboned)
- Get 2 pcs big Stock Fish (properly cleaned in hot water and pieced)
- Take 1 milk-cup of Crayfish
- Make ready 1 bunch Ugwu(chopped thinly and cleaned)
- Make ready 2 bunches water-leaves(chopped and cleaned) - the more the water-leaves the better for your soup because of the moisture)
- Make ready Periwinkles(optional)
- Make ready 1 -tsp of Dry Pepper
- Prepare 3 pcs Yellow Scotch-bonnet peppers(blended with your Crayfish)
- Get 3 Cooking-spoons of Palm oil
- Make ready 4 Maggi seasoning cubes
- Take Salt(to taste)
Edikaikong Soup is enjoyed by so many Nigerians across the world and also highly sorted for by many who are keen on tasting the soup. This is a delightful Delicacy from the South Southern region of Nigeria ( specifically Akwa Ibom and Cross River States) which Now is it Edika ikong or Edikang ikong? Edikang Ikong / Edikaikong soup is a nutritious Nigerian soup recipe made with a generous amount of Edikang Ikong used to be referred to as the "soup of the wealthy", because of the variety of rich. Edikaikong/Edikang Ikong soup is a nutritious, tasty, leafy green vegetable soup from Southern Nigeria made with fluted pumpkin leaves and Malabar spinach.
Steps to make Edika-Ikong Soup:
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- In a large pot, combine your cleaned Beef, Cow-leg, ponmo, seasoning cubes and salt(allow to boil and bring out it’s juice). Add a cup of water(avoid having too watery stock) to cook for 15-minutes. Then once it’s getting soft enough, add your cleaned Stockfish. - 2. Add your blended mix(crayfish Rodo(Scotch-bonnet)), 3-cooking spoons of palm-oil and cleaned smoked-fish and allow to simmer. - 3. Taste for salt and add a tsp of your dried pepper and periwinkles. Simmer for another 5-mins.
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- Add the chopped water-leaves first, stir and then Ugwu after about 30-secs and stir. - 5. Simmer for another 5-mins. Stir. Remove from heat and serve. - 6. Serve with your choice of succulent swallows!!!
Edikaikong is a Nigerian soup that is especially beloved because it is a valuable source of nutrition and vitamins. It is prepared with a combination of the following ingredients. Edikaikong soup is a mouth watering nutritious vegetable soup, native to the Efiks of Cross River and Akwa Ibom states in Nigeria and one of their most richest and popular. A famous Nigerian soup, particularly indigenous to the Efiks and thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated amongst connoisseurs and lovers of good food all over the country. Edikang ikong soup or commonly known as the shortened edikaikong soup is the original soup from Nigerian country.
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