Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, banga soup with starch. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Delta banga soup is best served with starch or eba. This Banga soup is one of many delta state soups in Nigeria. While it is indigenous to the Deltas, it is also loved and enjoyed by both People from Edo state and all over the Niger Delta states.
Banga soup with starch is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Banga soup with starch is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook banga soup with starch using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Banga soup with starch:
- Take 8 cups palmnuts
- Make ready half kilo of beef
- Take 1 medium size of stock fish
- Get 2 cubes Maggi
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 tea spoon of dry pepper
- Take 1 satchet of banga spice
When the fish and beef are cooked, add the palm fruit concentrate and water and cook to desired consistency. 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 soup is popularly eaten with starch but I love mine with pounded yam or Eba.
Instructions to make Banga soup with starch:
- Wash palm nuts and place in a pot with water to boil
- Wash the stock fish and beef thoroughly with water and salt and place in a pot to boil for 20 mins.
- After 30 mins, the palm fruit should be thoroughly cooked
- Drain the water and place the banga in a motar and pound to extract the juice.
- When the skin is peeled from the nuts, add warm water and sieve until all the juice is out.
- Place the extract from the palm nut in a pot and allow to boil.
- Add banga spice, beef, stock fish, salt, Maggi, pepper,
- After about 20 mins, the soup should be cooked, thicker and with oil floating on top.
- Traditionally, Banga is eaten with starch for the Deltans. For the Igbos, it goes with garri. It can also be used as sauce for white rice.
Banga soup recipe is now very easy to cook thanks to ready-made canned palm nut fruit. Getting banga spice can be difficult if you are living outside Nigeria but my friend, Karo said you can make it without the spice. Nigerian soups are the trademarks of the ethnic group they originate from. Most Nigerians soups incorporate many vegetables and protein, and are usually finished off with palm oil or a stew/sauce. Starch and banga is majorly enjoyed with catfish or fresh fish.
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