EWEDU SOUP PREPARATION.......................

                        Yoruba Ewedu Soup

Ewedu soup and stew

       

                                                    Ewedu Soup ingredients 

The ingredients include
Ewedu leaves (corchorus olitorius)
1/2 teaspoon powdered potash
About one to two cups of water
Ewedu Broom (local broom used in mashing it)
Salt to taste
Cray fish.
Maggi (1 or 2 cubes)

There are more simple ways to prepare this soup without the use of the mashing broom. You can slice the leaves to tiny bits and commence cooking
or you can follow the process below with a mashing ewedu broom, the normal way.
One of the qualities of the the ewedu leaf is the ability to draw, perhaps the reason you can not make this soup with any other leaf.

How to Prepare Ewedu Soup

Wash the leaves thoroughly with clean water to remove sand.
pour about two cups of water to a cooking pot and heat to boiling point, add the washed ewedu leaves, the potash (to soften the leaves), cook for about ten minutes.
Then use the cooking broom to mash (more like pound) continuously inside the pot, this will turn the leaves to tiny bits after mashing for about five minutes.
You will end up with something like this.
                                                                                         add salt, a cube of maggi, blended cay fish and pepper to taste.
You always serve ewedu soup plus stew and meat with amala eba, semo or pounded yam, the exact way a Yoruba man would love it.