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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD6_Tt1ahlw

2015 thread but still relevant.

Is it the same as the Urhobo Owho soup?

looks yummy and tasty…..Nice one !

HungerBAD:
Correction.

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

The Bini's cook their owo differently

I wonder if Tinubu has ever eaten this food before

HungerBAD:
Correction.

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

Hope this is not the moniker I know?

Urhobo Owo soup is the sweetest

The day I ate it with starch, I ended up eating more than ₦15000.

Since then, I don't eat it at anyhow restaurant.

No be everybody sabi cook am.

My aunty just visited from Nigeria and made this delicacy for me. I mounted it with starch.

Oboy, one of my best soups, and easy access when preparing(not sophisticated like other ones), plus its a worthy soup.

Can be eaten with rice too if you tired of starch.

It’s NOT Owo!!!!🤬🤬🤬

It’s Ogwo! Shortened from Ogwoevwri

Some dialects spell it Oghwo/Oghwoevwri.

NO URHOBO DIALECT SPELLS IT OWO

Edo(benin) is groundnut-soup.

HungerBAD:
Correction.

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

Love800:
Edo(benin) is groundnut-soup.

It's not
Benin owo and groundnut soup are different
The Benin owo is cooked with tomatoes
And mostly eaten with yam and plantain

RIP 🕊️ HungerBad



We still miss you! 🕊️

So benin really do cook owo souo as an indigenous delicacy! Just knowing dis.

I appreciate.

DeloitteNG:
It's not
Benin owo and groundnut soup are different
The Benin owo is cooked with tomatoes
And mostly eaten with yam and plantain

Thread from 2015? I had to look up to see if HungerBAD was posting again. RIP

Love800:
So benin really do cook owo souo as an indigenous delicacy! Just knowing dis.

I appreciate.

That's it


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airsaylongcome:
It’s NOT Owo!!!!🤬🤬🤬

It’s Ogwo! Shortened from Ogwoevwri

Some dialects spell it Oghwo/Oghwoevwri.

NO URHOBO DIALECT SPELLS IT OWO

Ohwo soup. I think that's the correct spelling. I may be wrong.

It is Owho soup not Owo, and the origin is the Urhobo people of Delta state

givedemwotowoto:
Thread from 2015? I had to look up to see if HungerBAD was posting again. RIP

Thank God you observed. Reality just dawned on me that he will never reply me.

RIP hungerBAD.

Kalaskala:
It is Owho soup not Owo, and the origin is the Urhobo people of Delta state

Urhobo wadoo!

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Love800:
Oboy, one of my best soups, and easy access when preparing(not sophisticated like other ones), plus its a worthy soup.

Can be eaten with rice too if you tired of starch.

But it's starchy already.

Nl should be dropping more soup recipe

MissyDee:
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

Stop misleading people. Ogwo soup is a delicacy of the Urhobo and Isoko people of Delta State. It does not belong to the Bini or Edo people. Just because you are from Edo State and your people borrowed the soup doesn't mean it is traditionally yours.