How To Make Delicious Utazi Soup / With Recipe (Nigerian Soup)

utazi leaves

🥗Healthier: spinach

💰Cheaper: kale

Spinach provides similar bitterness and nutrition.

stockfish

🥗Healthier: fresh fish

💰Cheaper: canned fish

Fresh fish is more accessible and still flavorful.

palm oil

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Coconut oil offers a similar richness with less saturated fat.

Rinse the utazi leaves thoroughly to remove any sand.

Blend the crayfish, macro fish, and scotch bonnet pepper together.

Mix cocoa yam powder with room temperature water.

In a pot, add goat meat, stockfish, water, chopped peppers, and seasoning cubes, and stir well.

Cover the pot and allow the mixture to cook until ready.

Add the blended ingredients and frozen banga to the pot.

Stir the soup to mix everything together and prevent burning.

Add more water to thin the soup if it is too thick.

Add cow skin and stir again.

Finally, add the utazi leaves and give the soup a good stir.

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