Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Ukwa(breadfruit) and ugba

Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Ukwa(breadfruit) and ugba Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Ukwa(breadfruit) and ugba. Also called Afon in Yoruba; Ize in Benin, Jekri, Sobo in Ijaw, and Ediang in Efik, Ukwa is the seed of the African breadfruit which is similar to the breadfruit eaten in the Caribbean and South Pacific, but a bit different. Popular amongst the Igbos African breadfruit is a naturally delicious food and can be. Ukwa (African bread-fruit) with special reference to the Nigerian Ukwa is one of the popular foods in Nigeria.

It is used as a food plant.

A variation is to cook the ukwa just by itself, then sieve out and reserve the stock when the ukwa is cooked.

Then using palm oil, prepare a sauce with pepper, crayfish, seasoning cube and your dry fish and mix the sauce with the ukwa.

You can have Ukwa(breadfruit) and ugba using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ukwa(breadfruit) and ugba

1. You need 2 cups of ukwa.

2. You need 4 of balls of Fresh.

3. Prepare 1 of Maggi cube.

4. Prepare of Salt.

5. It’s 2 table spoon of palmoil.

6. It’s of Dry fish.

7. You need of Potash(akanwu in igbo).

8. You need 1 of hand full of Ugba(oil bean).

9. It’s of d.

Serve the ukwa with the ukwa stock (mmili ukwa) as a soup to go with it.

Instructions * Carefully pick out stones and dirt from.

So for this particular ukwa porridge, I used ehu seeds, ogili ugba, red oil, maggi, basil leaves, potash and dried fish and the outcome was a winner!

It will also interest you to know that I scooped out part of the thickened breadfruit liquid referred to as "mmiri ukwa" before mixing together with the cooking ingredients.

Ukwa(breadfruit) and ugba instructions

1. First you need to select the Ukwa, make sure that theres no sand in it, then wash it properly.. After washing put them in the pot, add water and then cook..

2. When it starts to boil, add little Potash(akawu), it helps to make it to done fast..

3. When its done and soft sieve the water (not all complety) out in plate and set aside.

Set back on fire, add the rest of the ingredients. Then cover it let it boil until its absolutely soft..

1. Serve with the sieved water and enjoy.

Ugba is one of the Nigerian restaurant specials.

It is a traditional Igbo meal prepared the same way as Abacha (African Salad) but with Ugba, instead of using ugba/ukpaka as just a side ingredient, it is the main ingredient.

How to prepare Ugba [Video] If Abacha is like cooking Ukwa na Oka (Breadfruit with Corn), Ugba is like cooking only Ukwa (Breadfruit).

Dental health: Eating toasted breadfruit flower can help relieve toothache.

Applying crushed breadfruit leaves on the tongue can also cure thrush.