A dense Cross River vegetable soup of waterleaf and ugu (fluted pumpkin leaves) cooked with generous palm oil, periwinkle, dried fish and assorted meat. Traditionally a dish of prosperity: the vegetables outnumber the water.
- Heat
- Medium
- Kind of dish
- Soups & stews
- Usually made with
- beef
What’s in it
- Waterleaf
- Ugu (fluted pumpkin leaves)
- Palm oil
- Periwinkle
- Dried fish
- Assorted meat
- Crayfish
- Peppers
The usual main ingredients. Each kitchen cooks it its own way and says what its version contains.
Usually
- Gluten-free
How a particular kitchen makes it is theirs to say. Every dish on mamaPut carries the cook’s own answer, and allergies are worth asking them about directly.