Okoro has always been enjoyed from age to age all over the world. As a tropical flowering edible vegetable seed-pod crop or fruit, cultivated in Africa, South America, Asia, and now can grow all over the world, each country and people knows this Natural vegetable fruit, crop Okra with different names, and use's,

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Okoro has always been enjoyed from age to age all over the world. As a tropical flowering edible vegetable seed-pod crop or fruit, cultivated in Africa, South America, Asia, and now can grow all over the world, each country and people knows this Natural vegetable fruit, crop Okra with different names, and use's, it either as a food recipe, or it's other medicinal benefits, as a recipe because of it's very high quality level of nutritional benefits.But  our 

 here, in  Afric- Recipe1, is  the use of Okoro as a Recipe for  prepareing  "Okoro Soup"  

 Okwuru  (ofe) by the Isukwuato people of Abia State, which you can eat with Gari, Pounded-Yam (Utaraji) "Apku', nicknamed swallow, Tuwo-Shinkafa, Semovita etc.As  earlier stated , that's Okra is a Natural vegetable flowering fruit or seed-pod  crop,  which comes in different Species and  some times colors; it is used to prepare a Sweet delicacy called' Okoro- Soup and it  is combined, by the Igbo people of West African Region, also with other vegetables to make "Yam" sauce. But here our focus is how to make, Okoro- Soup, also it is a popular, home Soup by 

 people, especially Isukwuato people,  "Oho Okwuru"  ( Okra Soup ). Therefore here are the Ingredients or some of the recipes combined in the preparation of Okoro-Soup.

: You will just cut this Okra fruits into smaller bits, with small sharp knife or  use of hand greater if available.  

 : wash your hands before              cooking and wash your cooking recipe        before adding them to your cook.You      can  use the same water extracted from your     already cook meat and fish, cod fish, dry.   fish etc.Add water according to the size     of  other ingredients that's, you're using in preparing the Soup and also your taste.

(3) Fluted Pumpkins leaves (Ugu leafs): 

wash your Ugu leaves and cuts into tiny bits and make it ready to be added to your Soup.

 : ( nicknamed red oil ) "Nmanu-Nri" which you  are going to add, according to the size of other ingredients use in preparing the Soup ( measurement) is important.

(5) Crayfish: Grind the the crayfish,  measure and add according to your soup size (volume) and your taste., 

Add  according to your taste and the size, (volume) of the Soup.

: Boil your meat, Fish,  cod fish, and (Mbasa)  remember that you can use extracted water from your boiled  meat and fish to add to your cooking soup.

    [Per-boild freshfish image: Gisternews]

 to taste,  or use local maggi  "Ogiri Igbo or Ogiri Okpeyii " to bring out the taste  of all the other, ingredients in the soup. Or if you want to go more natives in preparing the Okra soup; especially for the people that needs more of it's medicinal benefits, emphasis on reducing body weight, smartness, then remove Palm oil (

) add this particular native spices or ingredients to the Soup; 

     ['Uda', local spice Photo: Gisternews]

"Uda"  ( Native name ) and the second one is Okpojo ( back of a tree  called okpojo) gotten by pilling it's back . ( "Okpojo" native name of the tree). The unique taste  of these both natives spices ( Uda  and Okpojo ), brings out the taste of, all the whole other, ingredients use in making the soup, in addition to their own unique taste..Please remember to add less Pepper to the soup while making use of this local spices

: Another ingredient you are not going to forget is Onions, if you are the type that's like the taste, and more of it's antioxidant, health, nutritional benefits that's naturally packed in onions.

Adding the ingredients to the Soup. First use the extrcted water from your cook meat, Fish, Cod fish ( MaEngala, Mbasa) dried fish, if not enough add more water to it, and allow to boil for few minutes and Start to add other ingredients to the boiling water, some potion of your chopped or cut onions, then your Palmoil, allow to boil very well, taste for salt, whether the salting in your extrcted cook meet is ok, if it is not enough add more to taste, after that's' add your crayfish, pepper, Maggi add your already cook meet, Fish, codfish (Ukporoko, Mangala) dried fish and allow to boil very well and make sure the redoil is done, after your redoil is done, add your already cuts Okoro, remaining portion of onions and allow for sum couple of minutes, after that's add your Ugu leafs ( Pumpkins leaves). Allow to boil for one to two minutes, leave it half-done and bring it down and serve. 

     [Okro vegetable soup: photo Gisternews].

the ingredients, note that some people will start to add a particular recipe or ingredients different from the way, it was listed above, it doesn't matter,  some will like to reduce the slipperiness of the Okoro and start by frying  the Okoro with the red-oil, for few minutes before adding water and other ingredients, so at the end, it will still be that's delicious Okoro-Soup.

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