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Ogbono Soup (African wild mango seed soup)

Ogbono Soup (African wild mango seed soup)

A hearty Nigerian ogbono soup thickened with ground ogbono seeds and flavoured with palm oil, spices, crayfish and greens, served with pounded yam.

75 min 549 kcal/serving serves 4
549kcal27gprotein8gcarbs45gfat
🥩mixed meat (oxtail or beef offcuts)
🐟smoked fish
🧅onion
🐟crayfish
🍗chicken stock cube
🥬spinach
🫗palm oil
🌶️red chilli flakes

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About Imma Adamu

Cameroonian-American food blogger known for African, Caribbean, and Southern comfort cooking

Immaculate Bites is the recipe blog of Imma Momoh, a Cameroonian-American cook and food writer based in the United States. She is known for bringing West and Central African cooking together with Caribbean and Southern American traditions, building a large following for approachable versions of dishes that might otherwise seem unfamiliar to a general audience.

Her recipes lean on bold, warmly spiced flavor bases, think garlic, ginger, scotch bonnet or cayenne, thyme, and curry powder, applied across stews, jollof and other one-pot rice dishes, fried and grilled meats, and baked goods. She often adapts West African staples like egusi, suya, and puff puff alongside Southern dishes like collard greens and cornbread, writing with an emphasis on clear steps and ingredient substitutions so home cooks unfamiliar with a cuisine can still make it confidently.

51 recipes on Mello, imported from africanbites.com, mostly West African and Jamaican.

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