A warm greeting to all steemian of this amazing community. How are you doing... hope all is well. I am @mbetobongluke from Nigeria and I'm super excited to participate in this contest hosted by @jyoti-thelight my regards to her.

Today I'm gonna show you how I prepared my super delicious melon soup. I used Atama leafs and okro to prepare my melon soup.
Stay tuned as I show you from beginning to the end.
Hope you Will also learn from my cooking.

Shopping from the nearby market in my street.

Melon soup can be prepared as low as your budget depending on the taste you want.

I loved nutritious and healthy food so I had to go to the market myself.
These are the list of ingredients in preparation of melon soup;

ingredients bought are

Melon
Okra
Atama leafs
Meat
Ice fish
Palm oil
Kanda
Crayfish
Onion
Pepper &
Maggi

preparation of melon soup.

What I did first was to cut the ATAMA leaf. I make sure I cut it till I cannot afford to cut it again. You can cut yours anyhow you like. But this is how I prefer mine. After cutting it, I dry it under the sun for some minutes.

step 1

During the process of drying the ATAMA leafs, I then proceeded to steam my meat which includes ( ice fish, periwinkle and Kanda).

When steaming my meat, I do not like adding water to the meat. I like letting the meat dry up together with the spices so the meat will have different tastes.

step 2

After steaming, I then proceeded in cutting my okra.
Some like cutting their okra in large sizes like onion.
Mine is different, I like cutting my okro to pieces.

And after cutting, I then pound it again in mortal and pistol. The reason why I pound it, is to make the okro thick.

After finishing up with everything that has to do with knife, I then proceeded to cooking. Action begins.

Firewood have a special taste for food. Away from gas cooker / gas cylinder, I like using firewood to cook soup. It gives special taste to the food. If I'm laying... Go ask your grandma or your mom 😅

step 3

The first thing I did was to turn the steamed meat inside my charcoal pot together with a little water. I leave it for 3 minutes to boil.
I then add pepper, Maggi salt and crayfish to the melon. I make sure I add small water in plates and turn it together before pouring it inside the soup pot.

step 4

This process will make the ingredients to balance and also I didn't want my fish to break inside pot why turning so I had to mixed the ingredients together with the melon before turning it into the pot.

I leave it again for some minutes before adding my okra.
Note; when adding okra to your soup, you don't have to cover the pot. If you cover the pot, your soup will be watery.

step 5

After putting my okra in the soup together with palm oil, I then turn the soup gently and leave it to cook for some minutes again

step 6

And lastly, I then add my Atama leaf. I sprinkled it in the soup and turn it again gently to mixed up.

After turning, I leave it for just a minute. I then take it off fire. Hello friends, melon soup is ready.

We the high cost of things here in Nigeria, money used to feed in restaurant will just be enough to prepare you a meal like this. Even though yours might not be too rich like this. But at least, it will save you money. However, I'm not saying you shouldn't go to restaurants and it oo

I would love to see entries from my friends

@abi24
@asi1993
@etette