🇱🇷 Liberian Cuisine

Eddoes Soup

Taro Root Soup

Prep Time 50 min

Servings 6

Difficulty Medium

Calories 384 kcal

A thick, starchy soup made from mashed eddoes (taro root) cooked with fish, palm oil, and leafy greens — smooth and deeply comforting.

Ingredients

1 kg eddoes (taro root), peeled and cubed
200g smoked fish, deboned
3 tbsp palm oil
1 large onion, chopped
2 scotch bonnet peppers
2 cups spinach, chopped
2 bouillon cubes
Salt to taste
4 cups water

Instructions

1 Boil eddoes in salted water until very soft, about 25 minutes.
2 Mash eddoes in the pot until smooth, adding water to reach soup consistency.
3 In a separate pan, heat palm oil and sauté onion. Add to the eddoes pot.
4 Add smoked fish, peppers, and bouillon. Simmer 15 minutes.
5 Add spinach, cook 5 minutes. Season and serve.

Did You Know?

Eddoes soup is called "the lazy cook's soup" because the eddoes do all the thickening work — no flour or cornstarch needed.