Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, banga stew aka ofe akwu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Banga Soup or Ofe Akwu is the Nigerian Soup / Stew prepared with palm fruits. The scent leaves give the Banga Stew (Ofe Akwu) its unique aroma and taste. If you are outside Nigeria, this may be hard to find, so you can use pumpkin leaves or any other vegetable in place of scent leaves.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have banga stew aka ofe akwu using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Banga stew aka ofe Akwu:
- Take Banga
- Take Okporoko
- Get Dryfish
- Make ready Goat meat
- Prepare Smokedfish
- Get Crayfish
- Take Dry prawns
- Make ready Onion
- Prepare Scentleave
- Take Cameroon pepper
- Prepare Okpeyi
- Make ready Fresh pepper
- Take Banga spice
- Get Salt n seasoning
Ofe Akwu is actually very easy to prepare, as long as you get the basic requirements right. To achieve a very tasty result, your meats must be very well seasoned as the stock will be incorporated into the soup. Ofe Akwu is the Igbo-style Banga Stew/Soup. It is a Nigerian soup that is native to the Eastern parts of Nigeria.
Steps to make Banga stew aka ofe Akwu:
- Cook all proteins and set aside, debone dryfish n smoke fish and set aside too, get a clean pot wash d palm karnal fruits aka Banga and put on fire to boil till d fruits get soft. Use a mortar to pound and get d juice out of d Banga,
- It’s quite difficult but also easy if u knw it.after pounding add warm water to d mortar den massage d Banga with ur hands if it’s too hot use a spoon or spatula den drain d juice out using a sieve please be mindful of ur water qty so dat u don’t have to start using yam as thickener, when d juice are all out u can trash d shaft and finally sieve again to avoid sand dat settles at d bottom of the juice.
- Pour d juice in a clean pot and set on d fire to boil till it thickens den add ur stock fish, dryfish and goatmeat add a bit of ur goatmeat stock and watch out for d consistency so dat it doesn’t come out watery and if it is water add a piece or two pieces of yam to boil in it and serve as a thickener. Then add ur onion n Banga spices if u are using any Dey sell dem in d market and can give u description on how to use dem.
- Add ur Cameroon pepper cos of it flavor den add fresh pepper pounded with okpeyi and crayfish,add ur dry prawns and smoked fish den finally seasoning and salt to taste before u add d scent leaves and Banga stew is ready..
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