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Edo Black Soup

Also known as: Benin Black Soup, Omoebe

A dark leaf-thickened palm-fruit soup with meat, fish and crayfish.

Edo Black Soup — illustrative food image

About Edo Black Soup

Black soup is associated with Edo State's Esan cooking. Chidi Anegbu's three-leaf rendition combines bitter leaves, scent leaves and uziza, ground into the mixture that gives the soup its dark appearance.

Fresh palm fruits are boiled, pounded and strained to make the soup base. Assorted meat cooks with onion, while roasted fish, stockfish and ground crayfish add further layers to the broth.

The leaves go into the thickened soup near the end of cooking. Eba accompanies the soup, providing a soft swallow alongside the meat and fish.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Fish, Crustaceans.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Edo Black Soup

Chidi Anegbu's Esan black soup with bitter, scent and uziza leaves.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Washed bitter leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual18/51 ground separately37.
  • Scent leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual19/52 ground with uziza37.
  • Uziza leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual20/53 leaves, not seeds.
  • Roasted fish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual21/54 roasted fish, called dryfish41/64; broad fish candidate with treatment retained, species unresolved.
  • Assorted meat: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual22/55 full selected component, exact mixture unprovided. Conditional cow liver46 only if already included, not added mandatory ingredient.; Ingredient page link pending verification or catalogue review
  • Ground crayfish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Actual23/56 explicit crayfish.
  • Ground pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual24/57 generic pepper;32 identifies redpepper but exact species/form beyond ground unresolved, not assumed blackpepper.
  • Seasoning cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual25/58,39/44; full product formula unprovided.
  • Stockfish ear: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual26/59 stockfish ear, broad prepared fish candidate, exact species unprovided.
  • Palm fruits: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual33 full own banga sauce extraction from palmfruit, broad palm-nut candidate; selected freshfruit route expanded rather than separate duplicate packagedsauce.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual28/61 and39/44.
  • Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual method39 halfcup onions missed by card, retained.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual33 extraction/filtering,36 leafblending,39 meat cooking and41 hotwaterfish washing consolidated.
  • Eba: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual45 offered eba selected from alternative swallows; full prepared component formula unprovided, no semolina union.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Nigeria
  • NigeriaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Chidi Anegbu, All Nigerian Foods - Black Soup, Delicious Edo Esan Soup