Name: Edikang Ikong Soup (Vegetable Soup) By Lilian Nke
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Nigerian Recipes
Ingredients: 1 kg Spinach/fluted Pumpkin leaves(Ugu); 200 g Water leaves/lamb lettuce; 500 g of assorted meat; Stockfish(optional); Smoked fish; 250 ml palm oil; Periwinkles(optional); 2 tbsp ground crayfish; 2 stock cubes; 1 medium sized onion; 2 scotch bonnet (Pepper ) a.k.a Atarodo; salt

RatingDifficultyIntermediate

Edikang Ikong Soup (Vegetable Soup) By Lilian Nke

Yields10 Servings

Prep Time20 minsCook Time45 minsTotal Time1 hr 5 mins

Edikang Ikong Soup is a highly nutritious, delicious, and savory vegetable soup natively prepared using ‘ugu’ (the native name for fluted pumpkin leaves) and Malabar spinach (locally called waterleaf in Nigeria).

This soup is almost exclusively eaten with a fufu or other form of ‘swallow’ (another local slang for any of the collection of local starch-based mounds eaten as a side with one of these soups).

1 kg Spinach/fluted Pumpkin leaves(Ugu)

200 g Water leaves/lamb lettuce

500 g of assorted meat

Stockfish(optional)

Smoked fish

250 ml palm oil

Periwinkles(optional)

2 tbsp ground crayfish

2 stock cubes

1 medium sized onion

2 scotch bonnet (Pepper ) a.k.a Atarodo

salt to taste