Recipe: Delicious Banga soup

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Banga soup. 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.

This recipe will, in the next few minutes shows you exactly how to make banga soup like an Itsekiri woman.

Banga soup is a delicious soup made from palm nut fruit, an assortment of spices, and a variety of meat and fish.

It is a popular soup in the Niger Delta part of Nigeria, particularly the Urhobo ethnic group.

You can have Banga soup using 11 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Banga soup

1. Prepare 1 of mudu palm fruits.

2. You need of Goat meat or any protein.

3. Prepare Half of mudu Periwinkle.

4. It’s of Stockfish.

5. Prepare 1 of Dry fish.

6. You need of Crayfish.

7. Prepare of Pepper.

8. It’s to taste of Salt.

9. Prepare 4 of Maggi cube.

10. It’s of Cow hyde.

11. Prepare leaf of Atama.

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.

Banga soup step by step

1. After extracting the juice from the palm fruits, pour into the cooking pot and add salt to taste, crayfish, pepper, maggi, cow hyde, already cooked goat meat, stock fish and already cooked periwinkle and cover the pot and allow it to cook for 15mins, then stir it and taste to confirm all seasonings are in place, then cover the pot to cook for another 10mins then add the already shredded atama leaf and allow it to cook for 5mins, stir it and allow to cook for 5mins then put off the gas cooker.

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.

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.