10/01/2021 20:18

Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Otong(Efik Okro Soup) Cooking Basics for Newbies

by Marie Martinez

Otong(Efik Okro Soup)
Otong(Efik Okro Soup)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, otong(efik okro soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious. When it comes to cooking, it is very important to take into account that everyone else started somewhere. I don’t know of one person who was born with a wooden cooking spoon and ready to go. There is a good deal of learning which needs to be done in order to become a prolific cook and there is definitely room for advancement. Not only can you will need to begin with the basics when it comes to cooking however, you almost need to begin again if learning to cook a fresh cuisine such as Chinese, Thai, or Indian food.

Otong(Efik Okro Soup) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Otong(Efik Okro Soup) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

I have written about Okro Soup in the past. (Recipe HERE). My Okro soup is actually a throwback to the Efik Ottong soup, so I am considering renaming it to Ottong Soup. On that post, I stated clearly that the dish was not Ila Asepo and it shouldn't be mixed… Otong soup is a popular delicious traditional Okra soup recipe from the Efik people of Cross river, South Eastern Nigeria. Otong soup is very similar to the Yoruba Okra Soup; Ila Alasepo.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook otong(efik okro soup) using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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The ingredients needed to make Otong(Efik Okro Soup):
  1. Take 200 g Ugu
  2. Prepare 200 g Okro
  3. Get 100 g Uziza
  4. Prepare 600 g Ponmo
  5. Take 3 pcs Fried Fish
  6. Take Others
  7. Get Palm oil 1cooking spoon
  8. Take Ground Crayfish 2cooking Spoon
  9. Make ready Ground pepper
  10. Take Iru(seeded)
  11. Get Cube Seasoning
  12. Get Salt

It is characterised by two main ingredients Okro and Ugwu. Otong soup is nutritious and it is high in iron content. To the Yorubas this is called Ila asepo (with variation). I don't get tired of okro soup be it Ila asepo, otong soup, Ogbono Okro or plain okro.

Instructions to make Otong(Efik Okro Soup):
  1. Assemble main ingredients,wash ponmo,season with pepper,seasoning cube and little salt,marinate for 1hr,to bring out the taste
  2. Wash and slice all vegetable,soak iru to make possible sand settle,after marinating, add enough water to boil ponmo,after 3mins,add palm oil,crayfish, iru,seasoning cube,bring to boil,add okro stir,boil for a min,add ugu,stir,boil for a min,taste to adjust with salt,add uziza last,stir,cook for a min,add fried fish,pls don't cover the pot,while cooking…turn off heat,enjoy with favourite morsel!!!

To the Yorubas this is called Ila asepo (with variation). I don't get tired of okro soup be it Ila asepo, otong soup, Ogbono Okro or plain okro. Okra (Okro) Soup is a farm fresh soup recipe prepared with green vegetables. Do you know how to prepare it so that the vegetables look yummy in the plate? This is another great okro (okra) recipe.

Nutritious cooking can be difficult as most otong(efik okro soup) folks don’t desire to spend time planning and preparing meals that our own families refuse to eat. At the exact same time, we need our own families to be healthier so we are feeling compelled to learn new and improved ways of cooking healthy foods to our family to love (and regrettably in some circumstances scorn).

For those that are hoping to incorporate healthy cooking customs in their everyday patterns, you will find no more resources available than in the past so as to assist you in those endeavors. You can look for the assistance of a skilled nutritionist, so your doctor can provide advice, you will find all sorts of books on healthy eating, cooking, and living at the local library, and also the world wide web is an outstanding source of all kinds of information when it involves developing a healthy lifestyle allaround.

It’s those little steps that you take towards your goal of cooking healthy foods for your family that will matter a lot greater than any giant leap. Before you realize it you will discover that you have more energy and a better sense of overall health than you would have envisioned before changing your cooking customs. If this is not sufficient to encourage you however, you may always check out the excuse to go shopping for new clothes when you lose a size or 2.


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