Hello to the Hive learners community!
It's a new week, a beautiful week for me as it's starting with the creative Sunday initiative and this time, I'm sharing recipe of one of my tribes native meal that I prepared some weeks ago, Banga soup (also called Amiedi) as we call it in my tribe, there's also banga stew but this isn't it.
It's one of my favourite soup for many reasons and one of them is that, it becomes sweeter the longer it stays. I know it's weird but it's that kind of soup, anyone who loves the soup never gets tired of it till the soup finishes and it can serve as a multipurpose, to take swallow or parboiled rice.
The process of making the meal isn't as easy as it looks though but the result is always worth it if well prepared. It's one of the meals I learnt how to prepare from my dad, I just add my style here and there trying out for a better different taste but it's always going to have that palm fruit taste.
Here's how I prepared the soup, these are the ingredients I used in preparing my Banga soup.
- Palm fruits
- Meat and iced fish.
- Cowskin.
- Periwinkle.
- Pepper and onions.
- Vegetables (beletete and bitter leaf)
- Crayfish, maggi, salt and banga spices.
The Process
First, I boiled the palm fruits for about 30 minutes and extracted the juice from it. Note, palm oil isn't used for this soup as the juice is already having enough oil. While the palm juice is boiling, I added my ingredients starting with the meat and cowskin as I didn't steam them separately.
I added the rest ingredients as shown in the video and the result came out looking like this. One hack I do with my meals is, I use fresh ingredients for fresh proteins. For this soup, I used fresh pepper because the meat and fish are fresh ones, it tastes better when I use this style.
So tell me, will you try this recipe? Have you prepared this before, How do you prepare yours?
I do hope you enjoy watching the video. Your comments will be very much appreciated. It's always a pleasure to participate in this initiative and I'm grateful to the community for the opportunity and support. Until next time...
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