INSTRUCTIONS TO COOK BANGA SOUP(OFE AKWU)

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Nigerian Banga Soup or Ofe Akwu is local to the Niger Delta and the South Eastern parts of Nigeria. In the Niger Delta territories, Banga soup is normally eaten with different fufu formulas: Starch, Beat Yam, Semolina, Garri and Cassava Fufu. In the South Eastern parts of Nigeria, Banga Soup is alluded to as Ofe Akwu where Ofe implies Soup/Stew and Akwu implies palm products of the soil utilized for the most part as stew for Bubbled White Rice.

Step by step instructions to Cook Banga Soup/Stew [Video]

The palm organic product oil separate utilized as a part of cooking Banga Soup/Stew is very not the same as the red palm oil utilized as a part of cooking Nigerian nourishment formulas. Palm Oil is unadulterated oil extricated from the palm organic product mash at high temperatures while the palm natural product oil separate utilized for the Banga Soup is removed at a low temperature and is a blend of oil and water. Palm natural product oil extricated for Banga Soup contains less immersed fat than palm oils.

Elements for Banga Soup

1 kg Palm Organic products or 800g tinned Palm Natural product Concentrate

Hamburger

Dry Fish

Vegetable: Fragrance Leaves for Ofe Akwu or dried and pounded bitterleaves for Delta-style Banga Soup

2 medium onions

2 tablespoons ground crawfish

Salt and Stew Pepper (to taste)

Ogiri Okpei (Iru)

1-2 major stock 3D squares

Before you cook the Nigerian Banga Soup

Extricate the palm organic product concentrate from the palm natural products. On the off chance that utilizing the tinned palm organic product concentrate, open the tin and put aside.

Cook the meat and the dry fish with 1 knob of diced onion and the stock 3D squares till done.

Wash and cut the aroma leaves into modest pieces. The fragrance leaves give the Banga Stew (Ofe Akwu) its one of a kind smell and taste. In the event that you are outside Nigeria, this might be elusive, so you can utilize pumpkin leaves or whatever other vegetable set up of aroma clears out. In the event that cooking Delta-style Banga Soup for starch, you ought to either cook this soup without vegetables or use dried and squashed intense clears out.

Cut the rest of the knob of onion. Pound the crawfish, ogiri okpei and pepper in a mortar and put aside. You can likewise crush them with a dry plant.

Cooking Headings

Set the pot of palm organic product remove on the stove and begin cooking at high warmth. Leave to bubble till you see come red oil at the surface of the Banga Stew. On the off chance that you believe that the Banga Soup is watery, cook till the soup has thickened to the consistency you like for your stews.

Presently, include the hamburger, dry fish and stock, the onions, crawfish and pepper and leave to bubble extremely well.

Include the aroma leaves or other vegetable and salt to taste. Leave to stew for around 2 mins. The Banga Soup is finished. Present with White Rice or utilize the Delta-style Banga Soup to eat Starch, Garri, Semolina, Amala or Beat Yam.

Cooking Bearings for those utilizing tinned palm natural product concentrate

At the point when the hamburger and fish are well done, include the palm organic product think and add water to get the consistency you like for your stews. Leave to bubble extremely well.

Include the onions, crawfish, pepper and ogiri mix and let it bubble extremely well.

Include the fragrance leaves or other vegetable and salt to taste. Leave to stew for around 2 mins. The Banga Soup is finished.

In the event that you utilized biting leaves to set it up, present with Nigerian fufu suppers particularly Starch. In the event that you utilized aroma leaves to set it up, present with bubbled white rice.

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