Ebeh (Root Vegetable Soup)

Ebeh (Root Vegetable Soup)

Hello NCC readers! Hope you are all enjoying the dramas of the World Cup! As Ramadan is here, it inspired me to cook one of the popular dishes during this period. Ebeh is a soup cooked with various root vegetables. Ebeh is very simple to prepare. This dish is high in carbohydrate that will give you energy after a long day of fasting. It can be prepared with or without palm oil, blended onions with scotch peppers, meat, chicken or smoked fish. The choice is yours or you can use all of the above. 

Hope you get to try this dish. Aprons on!

Serving for 4

Ingredients

 

Ingredients for Ebeh

1.            2 medium sized cassava

2.            2 medium sized malanga

3.            2 medium sized sweet potato

4.            1 sizable yam

5.            1 green banana

6.            1 ripe plantain

7.            4 medium sized onions

8.            4 scotch peppers or enough to your tolerance

9.            Assorted meat (cow foot, oxtail, broiler chicken)

10.        2 smoked bonga and 1 mackerel fish

11.        250ml palm oil

12.        Maggie season

13.        Salt

Cooking Instructions  

Chopped root vegetables

        1.            Peel and chop all your vegetables into chunky size cubes.

        2.            Bring the vegetables to boil with 3 pints of water. (if you are using any meat, boil until soft beforehand then bring to boil again with the pot of uncooked vegetables)

  

 

Ebeh pot boiling away

 

3.            Whilst pot is boiling with meat and vegetables, blend onions and scotch pepper. Add the above mixture to the boiling pot of vegetables. Add palm oil at this stage also then, leave the pot to boil for 30 minutes or until you have a thick soup consistency.

4.            Allow some of the vegetables to overcook. This helps thicken the soup.

5.            Add maggie season and salt to taste.

6.            Finally add smoked fish and turn the heat low and let the pot cook for a further 5 minutes and the soup is ready for serving.

     

  Voila! Dish is done! 

 

Ebeh (Root Vegetable Soup)