DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Edikang Ikong Soup
Flo presents this Edikang Ikong as the authentic rendition made with ugu and water leaves.
About Edikang Ikong Soup
Flo presents this Edikang Ikong as the authentic rendition made with ugu and water leaves. The Nigerian vegetable soup brings those chopped greens together with beef, dried cod and ponmo, or cow skin.
Red palm oil, ground crayfish and habanero season the mixture, with periwinkles among its shellfish ingredients. Onion is optional in the published recipe, and the periwinkles may also be omitted when unavailable.
The cooked meat and fish return to the pot after the greens have briefly cooked. The finished mixture keeps the vegetables alongside the larger pieces and is served with a Nigerian fufu meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish, Crustaceans.
Optional additions: Molluscs.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Edikang Ikong Soup
Flo's authentic ugu and waterleaf Edikang Ikong.
- Ugu leavesBase
- Water leavesBase
- Red palm oilCooking medium
- BeefProtein
- Stockfish (dried cod)Protein
- Ponmo (cow skin)Protein
- CrayfishSeasoning
- Seasoning cubesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Shelled periwinklesProtein · Optional
- OnionAromatic · Optional
- Habanero pepperSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Nigerian fufu mealAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Ugu leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual24 native Nigerian pumpkin leaves.
- Water leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Red palm oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Beef: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Stockfish (dried cod): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual28 explicitly dry cod confirms Fish.
- Ponmo (cow skin): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Crayfish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Actual30 crayfish confirms Crustaceans; ground42.
- Seasoning cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual31 opaque prepared cubes, no invented formula.
- Shelled periwinkles (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Molluscs source-confirmed. Actual32 and37 conditionally omittable when unavailable; Molluscs positive.
- Onion (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit33/38 optional despite method45.
- Habanero pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit meat/fish/skin cooking liquid45; retained broth.
- Nigerian fufu meal: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual52 named generic prepared accompaniment, full starch formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Nigeria association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Cuisines & regions
- Efik Cuisine
- Nigerian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Efik-Ibibio CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.