How to make owo soup
• Prep Time: 30 minutes
• Region: South-south ('Benin' Edo state)
• Misc : Serve hot with starch, boiled yam or unripe plantain

Ingredients:::
• 7 pieces Beef
• 4 pieces Ponmo
• 1 small Smoked Fish
• 1 cup periwinkles (optional)
• 1 small Urheri (naive salt)
• 1 teaspoon of crayfish (using too much crayfish will make your soup brown)
• 2 cooking spoons Palmoil
• 3 handful of yellow garri (sieved)
• 2 handful of starch
• Salt to taste
• Seasoning cubes

Directions:::
Step 1: In a medium sized pot, cook your beef and pomo with salt and seasoning cubes for about 15 minutes .
Step 2: In a clean pot, add 1.5 litres of water, Sieve the garri into the pot and stir over flame until it is thick. Bring to boil.
Step 3: Add the cooked meat with stock into the pot with garri, add the dried pepper, crayfish and then cook for like 5 minutes. Please note that adding too much crayfish darkens the soup.
Step 4: Add the periwinkles and smoked fish. Allow to boil.
Step 5: In a mortar, pound some native salt into powdered form. Using only a teaspoon's worth, pour it into a clean bowl, adding 2 handful of starch, 2 cooking spoons of palm oil and a cup of water. Mix all together until it flows freely.
Step 6: Pour the mixture into the cooking pot and blend in with a wooden spatula until you get your desired consistency. If it's too thick, you can add warm water to loosen it up a little. The oil should blend in nicely and not float around the soup.
Allow to simmer for a few minutes more before turning off the burner. Leave to cool for a few minutes before serving with Starch (Usi), boiled yam or unripe plantain.

Source: http://www.dobbyssignature.com/2015/07/owo-soup-recipe-owofibo.html#sthash.8jCdKKPx.dpuf

Correction.

OWO/STARCH/BANGA belongs to the Urhobo(I am not urhobo). The Bini's and others just borrowed the cooking.

HungerBAD:
Correction.

OWO/STARCH/BANGA belongs to the Urhobo(I am not urhobo). The Bini's and others just borrowed the cooking.

Thank you jare!

All of una no well. You think it's exclusive to you? Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko too make and eat Owo (Ovwo) soup!!!

Not sure it belongs to Benin people sha. But our own(isoko/urhobo) style of cooking it is different. We don't add starch to the soup, we use garri soaked in water to thicken. Then use potash (kanwu) to make it foam or sth like that. Your recipe appears great tho

Some Benin folks also cook this with tomatoes unlike the urhobos