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DIY Recipes: How to make the perfect Ghanaian bitter leaf soup
This bitter leaf soup recipe is generously stocked with flavoursome meats, fish.
The perfect Ghanaian bitter leaf soup
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Ingredients
½ cup washed bitter leaf
4 medium cocoyams
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10 medium size assorted meats
3 medium smoked or dry fish
1 medium-size stockfish
Ground dry pepper, to taste
1 tbsp locust beans
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½ cup ground crayfish
2 cooking spoons palm oil
Seasoning/salt to taste
Method
Peel, wash and boil the cocoyam till tender, then blend or pound in a mortar.
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Soak the stockfish in hot water to soften.
Season and boil the assorted meat until tender then add the stockfish and dry fish and allow boiling for 10 minutes.
Add the palm oil, locust beans, dry pepper, ground crayfish and cook for 3 minutes.
Add the cocoyam paste and stir very well (add more water if it’s too thick), allow cooking for 5 minutes).
Add the bitter leaf, seasoning and salt to taste. Allow simmering for 5 minutes.
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