How To Prepare Groundnut Soup With Ugu Vegetable.

Nigerian groundnut soup with hot garri.

This Nigerian Groundnut soup with ugu vegetable also known as peanut soup is mostly cooked by the Northerners and some parts of Southern Nigeria.

If you can cook egusi soup with vegetable, then you already know how to cook this groundnut soup because same method will give you a wonderful, delicious pot of soup. It is a delicacy to those who know it. Some people cook this soup with slices of dried unripe paw paw.This unripe paw paw acts like kpomo in the soup.  

Groundnut soup with vegetables  can be cooked thick or light depending on how one wants it, and 
the quantity of water or vegetables added too depends on personal preferences. Some great lovers of groundnut also cook this soup without any vegetables.

The groundnut can be roasted a little or just ground raw and fresh.  A small portion of Locust beans (dadawa) can also be added if you like it’s flavor.

SELF CONTROL WITH GROUNDNUT SOUPS

 

From research, we know that those who really need to eat this soup with no control whatsoever are men with low sperm count. Groundnut soup helps boost their sperm count research says. My groundnut soup with ugu vegetable  is the kind of soup that can make you eat more eba than planned.

So, if you are a weight watcher, I beg you to eat only one of those foo foo swallows  in the picture. Without self control, the yummy groundnut soup with vegetables can make you clear all three before realizing what you just did.

This soup can be served with any type of swallow foo foo, semo, starch, not too soft amala, pounded yam etc.
Anyone who can cook the miyan taushe soup sent in by Deborah Bala two days back, should be able to cook this soup. There is no much difference between the two groundnut soup recipes.

 

It is best warmed again at night or stored in a freezer because, just like melon soup, it can go sour easily.

A trial will make you a fan of this Nigerian groundnut soup with ugu vegetable, I promise.

 

INGREDIENTS FOR NIGERIAN GROUNDNUT SOUP WITH UGU VEGETABLE

1 Cup slightly roasted groundnut

1 small bunch fluted pumpkin (Ugu vegetable)

1 kg beef

3 cow skin (Kpomo)
2 medium sized smoked catfish
1/2 cup roughly ground crayfish
1 cup periwinkle (mfi) Optional
1 seasoning cube
1 pack stock fish ears
1 teaspoon pepper, you can add more
1 tablespoon palm oil
Salt to taste
Enough water or stock to cover the meat after steaming.

Before cooking groundnut soup:
Steam the beef with salt and onion until 
almost done.
Wash and cut the ugu vegetables and set aside
Grind the peanuts, wash and cut or shred the kpomo and set aside.

Nigerian groundnut soup cooking steps in pictures below…

Some ingredients like ugu vegetable,groundnut. salt, cow skin, crayfish, stock fish, smoked fish, seasoning, onion, pepper and periwinkle

boiling washed beef with salt and chopped onion

adding washed stock fish to soup

roasting peanuts for 4 minutes before grinding

grinding peanuts manually

grinding crayfish with groundnut

adding kpomo and palm oil to soup

adding just a scoop of oil to soup

Adding scrubbed and washed smoked  fish after palm oil boils and cooks

adding pepper. pepper and kpomo can be added while boiling beef or earlier

soup boils well before adding groundnut

adding ground peanuts and crayfish to boiling soup

adding washed periwinkle to soup

Finally adding  ugu vegetables to cooked soup

stir for just 3-5 minutes and remove from heat

vegetable groundnut soup being served with hot and fluffy eba.

cooked soup being dished out

rotten ugu, the reason for cooking light vegetable groundnut soup. I didn’t preserve this ugu properly, by the time I brought it out to chop, almost every had gone bad. I had to cook with the few good ones. Would have loved to add more, but sha, the soup still tastes very delicious.

a yummy serving of groundnut soup with soft yellow garri Periwinkle these days is so salty, be careful with salt before adding periwinkles. If you add salt before periwinkles, your pot of soup may turn out very salty.