adedayoa2:
surprise catch me too

and pepper add more pepper and more pepper

Godprotectigbo5:
but okro is not yoruba food, dats ibo food soup even the name originated from ibo language

Inferiority complex will always cause you people to keep on disgracing yourselves in public. You mean "OKRO" is now ibo language


Yorubas have a local name for it which the op already included but in your attempt to believe everything start and end from the Iboland you're telling us the word "Okro" is Igbo language.

Emmaesty:
Haba..... Baking soda in Okro? What will I not see

Do you know I saw potash there?
My gosh, this people can't kill me before my time.

mich24:


Do you know I saw potash there?
My gosh, this people can't kill me before my time.

My brother... ..... The matter sef tire me

Baking soda and akaun ?

This one Na chemical weapon. The presence of this chemical in the soup has rubbished every other thing.

Ops needs to go back to catering school.

Emmaesty:
My brother... ..... The matter sef tire me

The thing really wick me I must confess, okro that needs a tender cocking na im person they add potash.


No wonder Yoruba men tend to eat from mama Nkechi instead of mama awolabi.
I give up

Not even IRU (LOCUST BEANS) Yet you called it Ila Alasepo... I disagree, this one na okro soup @OP

pepper dem gang

Godprotectigbo5:
but okro is not yoruba food, dats ibo food soup even the name originated from ibo language

dont start o

If you eat this ila alasepo cooked by my mum, walai, yur life will neva remain d same again.


Infact, sometyms, I feel lik visiting my mum just to have a taste of that ila alasepo

OP this your soup is more like my secondary school chemistry experiment

Am salivating ..............................

Oh lalalalalalaala

Don't know why I just hate this soup ...

Godprotectigbo5:
but okro is not yoruba food, dats ibo food soup even the name originated from ibo language

Ofcourse Okra is not an Igbo food. It is eaten around the globe, and I believe it may have originated in Asia.

Yorubas have been eating ila (okro) for ages.

The true Yoruba ila alasepo is quite an extraordinary food. Absolutely sumptuous and fantastically tasty.

This not the yoruba okro soup I see often in Lagos. Yoruba okro is very greenish in colour and slimy without oil which they add stew to eat. Most of yoruba foods were very poor and except efo riro, but is very good that yorubas were now adding other people's food culture to improve their food. This okro food explained above is a combination of Ibo okro and South South okro soup.

Victorclean1:
This not the yoruba okro soup I see often in Lagos. Yoruba okro is very greenish in colour and slimy without oil which they add stew to eat. Most of yoruba foods were very poor and except efo riro, but is very good that yorubas were now adding other people's food culture to improve their food. This okro food explained above is a combination of Ibo okro and South South okro soup.

My bro me sef don tire oh. The only Obe ila I know of is the greenish one.

This isn't the original Yoruba okro soup, OP just added some influences from other tribes and heck, did i just see akaun and baking soda powder here. Who taught you how to cook sef, definitely not your mum

Not @ dis point of reccession ah!

Jboynokiaphone:
Don't know why I just hate this soup ...

Why won't you hate it when Yoruba women blend raw tomato and ewedu leaves?

in my preparation of ilaalasepo/lasee. I don't need akaun(potash). I just bleach the palmoil abit. abit ni o. add the diced okro. add meat broth or water. then all the orisirisi. and my lasee is ready. very fast no dulling

Na to dey slice the Eba and take carry the okro with those meat na so e go dey go siri we re re


Chai ! The food dey sweet die




Make u na join me ooooo

Food don land

goonsmi:





Inferiority complex will always cause you people to keep on disgracing yourselves in public. You mean "OKRO" is now ibo language


Yorubas have a local name for it which the op already included but in your attempt to believe everything start and end from the Iboland you're telling us the word "Okro" is Igbo language.

Actually, 'okro' is the Anglicised word for 'okwuru', borrowed from Igbo language, the name carried over by Igbo slaves during slavery, from which 'okra'k stuck. It is also called gumbo here in the US by blacks, gumbo coming from the Angolan word, ngombo. Not the soup itself, which may have existed with each tribe (igbo and yoruba, called okwuru and ila respectively) but the origin of the English word for it, okra.

Which one, exactly, is a little contentious: some think it was named after the flie powder, called kombo by the Choctaw native to the Louisiana region, but most sources support the idea that gumbo gets its name from the Angolan word ngombo, which just meant "okra." The English word "okra" itself comes from Igbo, another African language (largely spoken in Nigeria), which called the sticky plant okuru. Both the name and the plant came across the Atlantic by the early 18th century, and had made it as far north as Philadelphia by the 1740s.

http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-etymology-of-gumbo-okra-and-oysters

Still my favourite soup. Growing up, I am not a fan of Amala but my mum has a way of making me eat it. She will say " O j'amala? Ila ma ni! Then, I'll make a U-turn sharply. God bless all mothers. It's easy and quick to prepare.

Godprotectigbo5:
but okro is not yoruba food, dats ibo food soup even the name originated from ibo language

Lol it's not an Igbo soup ooo and the name worldwide is okra..we only bastardized it to okro in Africa.
Even Ghanaians and other English speaking African countries call it okro.

happyheart:

Lol it's not an Igbo soup ooo and the name worldwide is okra..we only bastardized it to okro in Africa.
Even Ghanaians and other English speaking African countries call it okro.

Sorry to burst your bubble,but the English word 'okra" was actually gotten form the Igbo name for the plant 'okwuru'.the soup may have existed in both peoples,but the word originated from the Igbo word for it.Igbo slaves took it to the Americas.ask Google.

Op, that ain't a correct ila alasepo.. where's your locust beans or ogiri? Where's your ponmo, panla? ...

For an upgraded version of ila alasepo add bitter leaf, spinach and mint leaves

KillerFrost:
Na so... But Egusi still kinging

A fan of "The flash" and a blue supporter too nice...

Nice recipe...

obiezed:

Sorry to burst your bubble,but the English word 'okra" was actually gotten form the Igbo name for the plant 'okwuru'.the soup may have existed in both peoples,but the word originated from the Igbo word for it.Igbo slaves took it to the Americas.ask Google.

Really? Hmmm the igbos originated almost everything. Wow.
What if the Igbos bastardized okro and started calling it okwuru? Lol
Kidding.
Thanks for the correction.

happyheart:

Really? Hmmm the igbos originated almost everything. Wow.
What if the Igbos bastardized okro and started calling it okwuru? Lol
Kidding.
Thanks for the correction.

Okro did derive from okwuru though.