Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, efere atidot (bitter leaf and water leaf vegetable soup). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Efere Atidot (Bitter leaf and water leaf vegetable soup) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Efere Atidot (Bitter leaf and water leaf vegetable soup) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have efere atidot (bitter leaf and water leaf vegetable soup) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Efere Atidot (Bitter leaf and water leaf vegetable soup):
- Take Assorted Meat
- Take Dried Fish
- Get Stockfish
- Get Bitter leaf 2 big handful (already Washed)
- Prepare Water leaves (should more) (picked, Washed and sliced)
- Take Dried Prawns
- Get 11/2 cup Palm oil. (Yes it needs oil)
- Prepare Fresh yellow pepper (pounded)
- Prepare Onions
- Take 1 tablespoon black pepper
- Get Removed Periwinkles (1 cup)
- Get 1 cooking spoon of crayfish
- Prepare Salt
- Get 2 stock cubes
- Get Cow skin (Brown Ponmo)
This is achieved by washing and squeezing the bitter leaves (and changing the water at intervals) till all traces of bitterness has. "The leaves are very bitter. Bitterness can be abated by boiling or in the young leaves by soaking in several changes of water. They are held to be anti-scorbutic and are added to soups or eaten as spinach." An extract of Bitter Leaf has been shown to be an active anticancer agent. How Bitter Leaf is effective for various diseases is listed in repertory format.
Instructions to make Efere Atidot (Bitter leaf and water leaf vegetable soup):
- Wash up the Meats, Stockfish and ponmo, season properly and cook till tender but still has some meat stock in d pot.
- Add the sliced water leaves, washed Dried Fish and oinions then give it a stir. Add Palm oil and just let it all come together
- Add the bitter leaf, pawns, periwinkles, fresh pounded yellow pepper and crumbled the cubes in. Stir and allow to cook.
- Lastly, you add the crayfish, black pepper and taste for salt. And if it needs water, you can add some…. otherwise allow
- Give it a stir and allow it to just simmer on low heat for 3-5mins. Mind you we cook for awhile till the Bitter leaf are just tender.
- Now, the soup is ready. Take off the heat and serve with any swallow.
Names of Bitter Leaf in various languages of the world are also given. Bitter leaf included in Acanthaceae family. This plant grows wild in open places such as roadsides, in fields, on vacant land rather damp soil or planted in the garden as a medicinal plant. Bitter leaf has numerous medicinal values and benefits to human health and lifestyle. The leaf exhibit some antibacterial and antifungal properties that make it a good home remedy to several health issues such as dysentery, diarrhea, high blood pressure, and many others.
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