Achi soup is an easy Nigerian soup recipe that is commonly prepared with different vegetables; this can be served with eba or semolina. There are so many Nigerian native dishes that you can cook in no time; achi soup thickener is one of such delicious soups, if you are looking for an easy native soup to make, start with this one. It is an excellent soup thickener; it adds a perfect tasty and irresistible flavour to soups that is why it is commonly used for cooking different soups and sauces. This simple thickener can be used in place of cocoyam, ukpo or ofor among others.

This local thickener can be substituted for cocoyam when making oha soup, egusi soupand and other Nigerian soups that require thickener. You can cook achi soup in many ways simply by combining thickner and bitter leaf, achi and uziza leaves, achi with ukazi or  local soup with ugwu.

However, a lot of people prepare this soup with bitter leaf, but I choosed to make mine with uziza leaf because of the nice and delicious flavour I get from uziza. Some other people mix egusi with achi. Because egusi is already a perfect thickener, I just prefer to use it the way it is without having to combine it with achi. In this case, you can use any vegetable you prefer most to make this Nigerian delicious soup. Vegetables shouldn’t be too much in this soup, you only need a splash to garnish the soup.

(1): kg of goat meat

(2): kg of goat offal (assorted meat)

(3): 1 medium kpomo (cow hide)

(4): 1 cup of stock fish

(5): 1 medium smoked fish

(6): 2 tablespoons of ground crayfish

(7): 3 seasoning cubes

(8): 1 large onion, chopped

(9): 2 tablespoons of ground achi

(10): 1 handful of shredded uziza ( cup)

(11): 1 tablespoon of ogiri

(12): 2 cooking spoons of palm oil

(13): 4 scotch bonnets or ground cayenne

(15): Salt to taste

Method of Preparing This Soup

(1): Wash and combine all the meat and stock fish except smoked fish in one pot.