Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, banga soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Nigerian Banga Soup or Ofe Akwu is native to the Niger Delta and the South Eastern parts of Nigeria. In the Niger Delta areas, Banga soup is commonly eaten with various fufu recipes: Starch, Pounded Yam, Semolina, Garri and Cassava Fufu. Banga stew is native to the Igbos and usually served with boiled white rice.
Banga soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Banga soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook banga soup using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Banga soup:
- Prepare Catfish
- Make ready grinded dry pepper
- Take Banga spices
- Prepare Thinly Diced onions
- Get Salt
- Prepare Seasoning
- Get Palm fruit juice
- Get leaves dried beletientien
Banga is also popularly known as Palm nut soup and it's not only popular in Nigeria,. Banga soup is a palm fruit soup common to the Niger delta and south eastern part of Nigeria. The Igbo version of this soup is the banga stew, they are almost the same since same ingredients are used. Banga stew can be served with boiled rice while the banga soup is best enjoyed with eba, semovita, fufu, pounded yam or starch.
Steps to make Banga soup:
- Pour the thick extracted palm fruit juice in a pot and
- Then add the diced onions and leave to boil for 15-20 minutes
- Add the beletientien leaves and put the washed and presalted fish
- Add seasoning cubes and pepper then cover to boil until fish is almost tender
- Add the banga spices and continue cooking until fish is tender and the soup is thick to taste
The best Banga soup recipe resides with them. In the same crisscross pattern with which Nigerian cultures move, Banga soup has been adopted in different parts of the country. Urhobo people refer to Banga soup as oghwo amiedi, while their neighbours the Isoko people call it izuwo ibiedi. Nigerian banga soup is a quick and delicious Niger-Delta style palm nut soup. It is very easy to make and packed full of flavour from the herbs and spices used in making it.
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