Cookbook:Ebatu Soup

Ebatu soup, also known as garden egg soup, is a typical Nigerian dish made from garden eggs and often consumed by the Ebira people. It is served with eba, amala, pounded yam or tuwo shinkafa.

Ingredients

 * White garden eggs, rinsed
 * Ewedu leaves, chopped and rinsed
 * Maggi cube
 * Salt to taste
 * Fish
 * Beef
 * Palm oil
 * Fresh bell pepper, rinsed and blended until smooth

Procedure

 * 1) Separately boil garden egg and ewedu leaves in water for a few minutes until tender. Drain each, and reserve.
 * 2) Mash garden egg with the maggi cube, and add salt to taste.
 * 3) Fry fish and beef in a pot.
 * 4) Add palm oil, blended pepper, garden egg mixture, and ewedu leaves. Stir and cook for a few minutes.
 * 5) Serve with eba, amala, or pounded yam.