Recipe: Perfect Ofe akwu

Recipe: Perfect Ofe akwu Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Ofe akwu. 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. Ofe Akwu is usually eaten with white rice while Banga soup is eaten with Starch ( pronounced stash by the Niger Deltans.

It is similar to the Efik's Banga Soup,which is traditional prepared with native spices, known as Banga spices.

These spices gives the soup a unique taste and flavor, which makes it a bit different from the Igbo's Ofe Akwu.

It's common to see Ofe Akwu served as a sauce for boiled Rice or yams,but you can also enjoy it.

You can have Ofe akwu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ofe akwu

1. Prepare of Palmfruits.

2. Prepare of Salt.

3. It’s of Smoked fish.

4. Prepare leaves of Scent.

5. It’s of Meat.

6. Prepare of Onion.

7. You need cubes of Maggi.

8. You need of Pepper.

9. You need of Crayfish.

10. It’s of Stockfish.

11. Prepare cubes of Star.

Ofe Akwu (Banga Stew) can be prepared with fresh palm fruits or tinned palm fruit concentrate.

On this page, I will give details of how to prepare delicious Ofe Akwu with tinned palm fruit concentrate (tinned banga).

This stew is used to eat Boiled White Rice.

You can also use the tinned palm fruit concentrate for Delta Banga Soup.

Ofe akwu instructions

1. Boil the palmfruits for 30minutes.pound and rinse in warm water.boil meat and stockfish with onion,salt and star cubes..

2. Boil the liquid squeezed out untill is a bit thick,blend crayfish and pepper and add to it.boil very well add salt,starcubes,boiled meat and stock fish after fifteen minutes cut the scent leaves and add also stir in and enjoy..

Ofe Akwu went down well in my household and everyone is asking for more.

When you try this dish, try not to miss out the important element to the dish and that is Ogiri.

Ogiri does not have a pleasant smell but it does wonders in your dish.

Also don't add salt to the soup till you have added the ogiri.

Ofe akwu is the igbo version of banga soup and also super delicious! some natives add ogiri to their ofe akwu but i prefer mine without.