Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, isoko type of banga soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Banga Soup is a Nigerian soup that is native to the Southernarts of Nigeria. It is very similar to the Igbo's Ofe Akwu, but the additional spices used for preparing Banga Soup, makes it differ in taste and aroma. Banga soup is known by several namesit is called izuwo amedi in Urhobo language and.
Isoko type of Banga soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Isoko type of Banga soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook isoko type of banga soup using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Isoko type of Banga soup:
- Take Palm nuts (banga)
- Get Tomatoes blended
- Make ready Fresh pepper (blended)
- Prepare Meat of choice
- Take Periwinkle
- Get Crayfish (blended)
- Take Kpomo
- Prepare Seasoning of choice
- Prepare Banga soup spice(you can get it from food stuff sellers)
- Take Dry leaf(we call it benetete)i dont know the english name🙆♀️
Although this is not a cooking channel but food is part. Palm nut soup is a soup made from the palm fruit common to the African community. In Ghana, palm nut soup is called abenkwan. In Nigeria, it is called banga soup, ofe akwu, oghwo amiedi, or izuwo ibiedi.
Instructions to make Isoko type of Banga soup:
- I made this one very simple. First put your palm nut in a pot and put on fire to cook till tender.
- When your palm nut is tender, bring down from fire and pour into your mortar and start pounding. B4 then, put water on fire in a kettle and allow to boil.
- When the skin is out of the kernel, transfer it into a bowl and the start squeezing with your hand to extract the oil from the nut. Add hot water gradually to help you strain out all the oil. Your banga water is ready.
- Then seive the oil into a pot and place on fire. Now for this part, i like cooking my meat with my banga water, this helps the meat absorb the soup taste.
- Into the pot on fire, add tour washed meat and kpomo and allow to cook very well, till the oil and the water of the pakm nut is mixed together.
- Now add your blended tomatoes, pepper, onion, crayfish, then cover the pot and allow to cook for like 5 mins
- Then add your banga spices and seasoning. Then lastly add your periwinkle (you dont want your periwinkle over cooked, so it can still be crunchy?
- Finally, taste for salt and then leave on fire to dry up a little more or if you have the native pot we call umuwo, you can put the pot down from fire and then serve into your umuwo and let it dry up there. The Umuwo gives the soup another unique taste.
- Your banga soup is ready. You can eat it with any swallow of your choice, but it best goes with USI (starch).
The delicacy is used to accompany other dishes such as fufu, banku, rice and so on. Banga Soup or Ofe Akwu is the Nigerian Soup / Stew prepared with palm fruits. It can be used to eat fufu meals or used as stew for the white rice and boiled yam recipes. Nigerian Banga Soup or Ofe Akwu is native to the Niger Delta and the South Eastern parts of Nigeria. Banga, also known as Oghwo amiedi in Urhobo language and izuwo ibiedi in Isoko language, is a type of palm fruit soup from Southern the Niger Delta Nigeria particularly the Urhobo ethnic group.
So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food isoko type of banga soup recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am sure that you will make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
