Food Challenge Contest Week #41 || For Everyone (teach kids how to cook vegetable soup(pumpkin leaf)) || 10% payout to @steemkidss

Hello everyone. I hope we are all good. I appreciate @steemkidss for this contest about food, snacks, drinks. I choose to teach on vegetable soup. This soup has different names in Nigeria. The Yoruba tribe calls it Efo Riro, the Igbo tribe calls it Ofe Ugwu, the calabar/Ibibio calls it Edikang Ikong.

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Nutritional Value of Vegetable Soup

This delicacy has a lot of nutritional components that are very good for the body. All the ingredients used in preparing this soup contains nutrients ranging from; calcium, potassium, protein, folic acid, iron, vitamins (A, C and E).

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Ingredients needed

• Vegetable leaf (pumpkin leaf) & waterleaf

• Crayfish & palm oil

• Onions & pepper

• Maggi & salt

• Periwinkle & dried fish & stockfish

• Meat

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Steps on how to cook

The ingredients to be used are prepared for usage. From washing, to cutting, to pounding, to boiling.

• Step one: In my pot of cooked meat & stockfish, I put in the crayfish, periwinkle, maggi, salt, onions, palm oil and pepper and stir to cook for few minutes.

• Step two: I add my waterleaf and stir to cook for some minutes.

• Step three: I then add my vegetable leaf and stir and allow it cook for some minutes. And my food is done.

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Health Benefit of Vegetable soup

• This soup helps to reduce the risk of cancer and fights oxidative stress.

• It is good for the protection of the liver.

• The vitamins provides healthy skin and hair.

• It also boost blood production.

• It's good for weight loss.

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Conclusion

This soup is enjoyed with all kinds of swallow ranging from cassava flakes, to yam swallow, foo foo, wheat, semovita, oat flour, etc.

Cc:
@steemkidss
@ngoenyi