Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Isoko type of Banga soup

Isoko type of Banga soup. Banga Soup is a Nigerian soup that is native to the Southernarts of Nigeria. It is very similar to the Igbo's Ofe Akwu, but the additional spices used for preparing Banga Soup, makes it differ in taste and aroma. Banga soup is known by several namesit is called izuwo amedi in Urhobo language and.

If you are looking to make the Igbo version please click - Igbo Banga Stew. So in this video i decided to show to you the banga soup and starch that i prepared. Although this is not a cooking channel but food is part. You can cook Isoko type of Banga soup using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Isoko type of Banga soup

1. Prepare of Palm nuts (banga).
2. Prepare of Tomatoes blended.
3. Prepare of Fresh pepper (blended).
4. You need of Meat of choice.
5. Prepare of Periwinkle.
6. Prepare of Crayfish (blended).
7. It's of Kpomo.
8. It's of Seasoning of choice.
9. Prepare of Banga soup spice(you can get it from food stuff sellers).
10. Prepare of Dry leaf(we call it benetete)i dont know the english name🙆‍♀️.

Palm nut soup is a soup made from the palm fruit common to the African community. In Ghana, palm nut soup is called abenkwan. In Nigeria, it is called banga soup, ofe akwu, oghwo amiedi, or izuwo ibiedi. The delicacy is used to accompany other dishes such as fufu, banku, rice and so on.

Isoko type of Banga soup step by step

1. I made this one very simple. First put your palm nut in a pot and put on fire to cook till tender..
2. When your palm nut is tender, bring down from fire and pour into your mortar and start pounding. B4 then, put water on fire in a kettle and allow to boil..
3. When the skin is out of the kernel, transfer it into a bowl and the start squeezing with your hand to extract the oil from the nut. Add hot water gradually to help you strain out all the oil. Your banga water is ready..
4. Then seive the oil into a pot and place on fire. Now for this part, i like cooking my meat with my banga water, this helps the meat absorb the soup taste..
5. Into the pot on fire, add tour washed meat and kpomo and allow to cook very well, till the oil and the water of the pakm nut is mixed together..
6. Now add your blended tomatoes, pepper, onion, crayfish, then cover the pot and allow to cook for like 5 mins.
7. Then add your banga spices and seasoning. Then lastly add your periwinkle (you dont want your periwinkle over cooked, so it can still be crunchy?.
8. Finally, taste for salt and then leave on fire to dry up a little more or if you have the native pot we call umuwo, you can put the pot down from fire and then serve into your umuwo and let it dry up there. The Umuwo gives the soup another unique taste..
9. Your banga soup is ready. You can eat it with any swallow of your choice, but it best goes with USI (starch)..

Isoko and Urobo people prefer to cook it with fresh fish, catfish, dried/smoked fish or meat. In some cases, the banga leaf substituted with scent leaf or dry bitter leaf. The next one among different types of Nigerian soup. This soup is known not only in Nigeria but in some other African countries. Banga Soup or Ofe Akwu is the Nigerian Soup / Stew prepared with palm fruits.