02/07/2024
The complaint about the cost of tomatoes this day is highly disturbing.
As urhobo man , i dont think it is compuslory for me to eat tomatoes, then why should i be pertubed.There are other soup we can cook without tomatoes.Pepper and onions are enough.
The following are delicious soup made in my place without tomatoes :
1.Iribo -oto:soup made with pepper and spices like nutmeg. The soup is also medicinal. it can be eating with yam and eba.And it is of two type .OIl type and the non oil type
2. Ogwo :Soup made from pepper,garri, potach and water...garnish with tinko,pomo and ice fish. it can eating with eba and yam... infact ,this is the traditional soup of the urhobo people. we have normal ogwo and ogwo-ifo
3.Egusi pepper soup : one of the delicious soup of the nigerdelta people made from Egusi,nutmeg and pepper ..just garnish it with tinko ,pomo and roasted ice fish.it is majorly eating with eba
3. Okro soup and okro pepper soup: made from okro ,pepper and spices like nutmeg,urieren (negro pepper) and others... it is called okro pepper soup when there is no oil but normal okro when you add oil. it can be eating with eba and yam
4. ogbolo soup : made from ogbolo and pepper... eating with eba, akpu and starch
5.Banga soup: Made from banga, pepper and spices like taiko,benetete and aidan in some place. u can add any vegetables.No oil addition. It can be used to eat rice,eba,yam Akpu,starch and bread.You can garnish it with crayfish and ewedu leaves to make it very delicious
6. Egg and vegetable soup : This is made by frying egg,onions,pepper and vegetables like ugwu,scent leaves and shokoh leaves.. it is used to eat bread with tea, rice and yam..
And many more as you move along the 24 clan of the urbobo kingdom..
urhobo people let us learn how to appreciate our own .
We should stop being enslave by foreign life that is affecting us in a negative way.
Stop complaining about tomatoes!
Eat urhobo food and live a healthy life.
