5 days writing challenge, Learn how to cook vegetable soup (DIY)

Vegetables are part of plants used as food. It's advisable to more of vegetables because it is a source of Vitamins and minerals which helps the body to produce new red blood cells. I am going to teach you how to cook vegetable soup using waterleaf and pumpkin leaf. Below are the necessary ingredients you need to make the soup.

• Waterleaf
• Pumpkin leaf
• Achi or melon to thickening the soup
• Fish
• Crayfish
• Stock fish
• Meat
• Periwinkles
• Palm oil
• Maggi
• Water
• Papper

First thing is to slice the water leaf. Either you bought it from market or you got it from your garden. After slicing it, make sure you washed it very well. It might be twice or more. Make sure their is no remaining sand on the last water you used to wash it. That's how you get to know that the leaf is free from sand. After washing it, put it in a sieve and put it in a tray or any clean bowel so that all the water will dry out. Because waterleaf it self contains more of water.

_{@chichieze slicing waterleaf}

Is not advisable to wash pumpkin leafe before washing. So, all you need to do here is to wash the pumpkin leaf at least 2 time's with salt and water. Please Wash it very well to avoid eating sand. After washing, you then slice it to your choice. Either big or small size.

_{Sliced waterleaf and pumpkin leaf}

Make sure your pot is ready here. Then you start by washing the meat. Wash it with lukewarm water or room temperature water with salt. Put it in the pot and wash the fish. After washing the fish, select and remove dirty from the crayfish, wash and pound it with fresh pepper if it's the one you are using. Put all in the pot and wash the periwinkles. And it too in the pot and, add Maggi with salt. You can aswell and onions for good aroma and sweet taste. Set up your fire and paste the pot on top of it after adding water to it.

Within a space of 30 minutes, those things should have been done. Bring it down from the fire and, put back another pot which you are using to cook the soup. Make sure their no water in the pot, then add palm oil. Put your Achi or melon and fry it for some minutes. Add little water to it and then pour the ingredients inside the pot. Allow it to boil and mixed together. Then, add your waterleaf first and allow it to boil for some minutes. At the end, add your pumpkin leaf with another palm oil. Check the tirst if you need to add more salt or maggi. Once the taste is ok, cover your pot and give it few seconds. Bring it down from the fire and enjoy your delicious vegetable soup.

You may have another way of cooking vegetable soup, but following up these stages will give you the taste you ever desired.

cc
@steemalive
@ijelady
@focusnow
@caleb-marvel

About me