Afang soup

Nigeria · Sub-Saharan Africa

Short description: Afang soup is a thick leafy soup where shredded greens hold palm oil, seafood, and meat in a dense sauce.
Ingredients: Afang leaves and waterleaf cook with palm oil, beef, dried fish, stockfish, crayfish, chile, and sometimes periwinkle.
Cultural note: The soup shows how leaf texture matters: tougher leaves are shredded fine, while softer leaves help loosen the pot.
Common misconception: It is not just spinach stew; the named leaf gives the soup much of its flavor and texture.

image credit

creator:: Ukpong1
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:: Cropped, resized, stripped, and re-encoded from Wikimedia Commons for Gochizu draft review.