HOW TO COOK UNRIPE PAWPAW (PAPAYA) SOUP

Papapya or Pawpaw soup is cooked with diced and dried unripe pawpaw. It is a delicacy of the Obudu people of Cross River State Nigeria. They are found around the Ranch Resort and share a
boundary with Benue State. Pawpaw soup is cooked with ogbono, egusi, Nigerian white soup or even
vegetable soup. It adds richness to the soup and the cooked pieces are really delicious and crunchy.

How To Prepare pawpaw soup:
First of all, harvest the unripe papaya, wash, peel, clean the inside and throw away the seeds then dice and sun until very dry. You can use your preferred method to dry but make sure they are very dry before storing.

To add to soup, I first of all soaked in cold water when I started steaming the meat, when my soup was cooked, I just drained the water and added pawpaw to soup. Waited for about 3 minutes before turning off the heat.



Health Benefits Of Pawpaw (Papaya)

• Improves digestion
• protects against hear disease
• protects eye sight
• Helps treat arthritis
• Nourishes hair
• Prevents cancer
• Helps maintain healthy weight
• Helps treat hypertension
• Boosts immune system
• Protects against heart diseases
• Helps the renewal of muscle tissue
• In Nigeria, unripe pawpaw is used as a home remedy for treating jaundice in babies

These are little pieces of unripe pawpaw, washed, peeled, diced and dried. They are soaked in water for at least 5 minutes before being added to the cooked soup. This soup is good, very delicious. I loved it.






Ingredients for this Ogbono pawpaw Soup:

I kg Goat meat
crayfish
1 bunch stock fish ears
small onion bulb for boiling the meat
salt and seasoning cubes to taste
2 teaspoons my pepper sauce
1/4 cup ogbono (ground)
4 uziza leaves
Water


Adding uziza leaves to soup


Pawpaw added just before stirring







Pawpaw soup with nutritious goat meat


Ogbono Pawpaw soup


I didn't bother posting all the step by step cooking pics because that will be repeating ogbon o soup posts on the blog. If you can cook any Nigerian soup, just add this at the end and cover for like 3 or more minutes. Ready to eat.