Ager Soup
Traditional dish with ager leaves, palm oil, beef.

- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 1 cup ager leaves
- 2 tablespoons palm oil
- 0.4 kg beef
- 1 smoke-dried catfish
- 2 teaspoons nune
- 1 maggi cube
- 3 fresh bell peppers
- 5 medium tomatoes
Steps
- Scrape off the white flaky skin of the ager stalk.
- Pound gently for a few minutes to remove the ager pulp.
- Squeeze the pulp in a small amount of water to extract the slippery juice.
- Sieve this product to separate the juice from the fibres.
- Heat a little water in a pot.
- Add the ager juice.
- Add the palm oil, blended pepper, blended tomato, beef, and fish.
- Cook for a few minutes, stirring continuously until an elastic consistency is achieved.
- Add the nune, maggi cubes, and salt to taste.
- Serve with swallows as desired.
Adapted from “Ager Soup”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.