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Hello friends greeting, to you all, how are you people doing, i hope you all are doing very well, i am so glad to be here today to, discuss how to prepare my most practical recipe, my most practical recipe prepared by myself is a traditional meal called Edikang ikong soup and Garri eba, which is well explain and elaborated in a very simplify way, cheers as you read on

Today I have prepared another of my traditional recipe for the sake of this great contest. This is to tell you that I love cooking, i prefer cooking my own meal rather than going to the restaurant to eat, do you know why, because, am a very good cook, right from when i was a child.

In this article of mine, I will be showing you my traditional food and how you can prepare it, it is very simple and easy to prepare so you don't need to worry.
This my traditional recipe that i am about to show you is called Edikang Ikong Soup. It is a vegetable soup that is populary known among the people of Efik in Akwa Ibom and Cross River State located in the southern part of Nigeria, it is also a very popular traditional soup, among the Igbos, the tribe that occupy the Eastern part of Nigeria.
Edikang Ikong is the only soup that is considered to be a delicacy among these tribes the Igbos, cross riverance and Akwa ibomite and it's the reason why the soup is sometime served whenever there is an important traditional occasions in these various tribes occasion such as traditional marriage, New yam festival, burials ceremony, even thanks giving ceremony.

Now, let me start by showing you how to make Edikang Ikong Soup.

Edikang Ikong Soup Recipe:

Here I will be showing you the quantities of recipes that you can cook Edikang Ikong Soup with either as a bachelor or a single lady. But in a case where you're to cook your Edikang Ikong Soup for family consumption, or big occasion you can increase the quantity of recipes, so that it can be enough for your family or guess.

now let's take a look at the most needed recipe (, ingredients requirements (

• 200g Water leaves
• 2kg Ugwu leaves (Pumpkin leaves Spinach/fluted)
• 500g of assorted meat (chicken, cow shaki (tripe),kanda(cow' skin), snails) anyone that you can afford can served.
• Smoke fish
• Stock fish (optional)
• 140ml palm oil
• Onions
• Ugwu
• Periwinkles (optional)
• Crayfish
• Fresh pepper
• Maggi to taste
• Salt to taste

Ingredients	Quantity	image
water leaf	200g
ugwu leaf	1kg
fish	2 full fresh fish
cow skin	100g
palm oil	120ml
onions	1 big onion
fresh pepper	6 seed
salt and maggi	to taste 5cube

Procedures for cooking Edikang Ikong Soup are as follows below:

The first step is to prepare the vegetable (Ugwu and water leaves), by washing and cutting them small (i.e slices it tiny according to how you prefer it) and keep it aside.

The second steps is to wash and cut my fish and cow skin. that am to used and keep them aside.

After, following the procedures above, the steps below is what I took to cooked my Edikang Ikong Soup.

• I place fish and cow skin in the pot, and added a little water, slice onion, salt and Maggi and cooked properly.

I then added palm oil in to the cooking soup

I then added salt in to the cooking soup to make it taste delicious

• I also added my grounded pepper and my slice onion as the soup get boiled

I now add my slice vegetable leave (ugwu) and water leaf in to the soup, i added it last so that it will not be over cooked, so as to retain it taste

• After allowing the affomentioned ingredients to boil for some minutes, I stir the soup thoroughly and allow it to stim for 6minutes and after that my traditional Edikang Ikong Soup
• became ready.

My traditional edikang ikong soup is now ready, so what next do i need to do now

I then make garri eba so that i can eat it with my edikang ikong soup, this is how i make my garri eba.
I simply put water in to the pot place it on my cooking gas i then allow the water to boiled for some minute, when the water start evaporating it's mean it's boiling.

I now brought the boiled water down pour it inside a bowl, which contains by garri eba and mixed it very well.

Finally, my delicious meal is ready to be eaten, you can see from the above image how nice my edikang ikong soup and garri eba look, it's taste very delicious, i ate an enjoy my traditional meal a lot.

Note: Aside eating Edikang Ikong Soup with Garri Eba, it can also be served with Starch(Usi), Fufu, Amala or Semolina as well.

Phone	Techno pop2 f
Country	Nigeria
Location	Ebonyi State, Abakaliki
Photography	@rad-austine

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Conclusion: i am so pleased for reviewing how to cook my traditional recipe, i hope you learn from it, also i thank @steemitfood for organizing this contest, thank you all for viewing my post, i sincerely appreciate.