Fluted pumpkin leaves drink (Ugu drink). Fluted pumpkin leaves are greenish leafy vegetables grown in Nigeria and other West African countries. They are edible when boiled or cooked with foods; it can also be taken as a vegetable salad or as juice when mashed as fresh leaves and the juice extracted. It is called sokoyokoto in Yoruba.

The English name is Fluted pumpkin, fluted gourd and the Spaniards call it Costillada. Telfairia Occidentalis is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. Common names for the plant include Fluted gourd, Fluted pumpkin, and Ugu. You can have Fluted pumpkin leaves drink (Ugu drink) using 3 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fluted pumpkin leaves drink (Ugu drink)

It's of Pumpkin leaves (ugu leaves).
It's of Small water.
Prepare of Milk.

By consuming fluted pumpkin leaves or Ugu, you will help your body to fulfill the protein needs in the body. As we all have known, protein will help to restore the broken cells in the body with the new ones. Also, protein plays the main role in providing another great health benefits including to support. Ugu leaves, otherwise known as fluted pumpkin leaves, can be seen growing alongside large fleshy green gourds.

Fluted pumpkin leaves drink (Ugu drink) instructions

Wash pumpkin leaves and put in a blender with small amount of water and blend.
Sieve and add ur peak milk serve.

Fluted pumpkins are native to West Africa, and they are most common for Southern Nigeria, as well as Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone. While it is usually the fruit/vegetable that gets. The fluted pumpkin botanically known as Telfaira occidentalis has one advantage in that it can be enjoy through out the year unlike some other vegetables. However, you see the leaves flood the market more during rainy season. Below are some of the nutritional and health benefits of including Ugu leaf.