Eru Soup Recipe (Cameroonian Wild Vegetable Soup)

Eru Soup Recipe (Cameroonian Wild Vegetable Soup)

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Shredded eru leaves cooked down with waterleaf or spinach, palm oil, crayfish, smoked fish, beef and cow skin. A classic from southwest Cameroon.

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Ingredients

  • 100 g dried eru (okok) leaves, finely shredded
  • 750 g waterleaf, or spinach as a substitute
  • 500 g beef
  • 500 g cow skin, cut into pieces
  • 500 g smoked fish
  • 30 g crayfish (madjanga), ground
  • 500 ml red palm oil
  • 2 pinches chilli powder
  • Salt, to taste
  • Kanwa (potash) or bicarbonate of soda, a small pinch (optional, for softening)

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