Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, banga stew aka ofe akwu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Banga stew aka ofe Akwu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Banga stew aka ofe Akwu is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Ofe Akwu is a palm nut stew that is native to the Igbo s in Nigeria. 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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have banga stew aka ofe akwu using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Banga stew aka ofe Akwu:
- Make ready Banga
- Take Okporoko
- Prepare Dryfish
- Take Goat meat
- Make ready Smokedfish
- Prepare Crayfish
- Make ready Dry prawns
- Prepare Onion
- Prepare Scentleave
- Get Cameroon pepper
- Make ready Okpeyi
- Get Fresh pepper
- Get Banga spice
- Get Salt n seasoning
Banga stew/soup or Ofe Akwu is native to the Niger Delta and the South Eastern parts of Nigeria. Banga stew/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.
Steps to make Banga stew aka ofe Akwu:
- Cook all proteins and set aside, debone dryfish n smoke fish and set aside too, get a clean pot wash d palm karnal fruits aka Banga and put on fire to boil till d fruits get soft. Use a mortar to pound and get d juice out of d Banga,
- It’s quite difficult but also easy if u knw it.after pounding add warm water to d mortar den massage d Banga with ur hands if it’s too hot use a spoon or spatula den drain d juice out using a sieve please be mindful of ur water qty so dat u don’t have to start using yam as thickener, when d juice are all out u can trash d shaft and finally sieve again to avoid sand dat settles at d bottom of the juice.
- Pour d juice in a clean pot and set on d fire to boil till it thickens den add ur stock fish, dryfish and goatmeat add a bit of ur goatmeat stock and watch out for d consistency so dat it doesn’t come out watery and if it is water add a piece or two pieces of yam to boil in it and serve as a thickener. Then add ur onion n Banga spices if u are using any Dey sell dem in d market and can give u description on how to use dem.
- Add ur Cameroon pepper cos of it flavor den add fresh pepper pounded with okpeyi and crayfish,add ur dry prawns and smoked fish den finally seasoning and salt to taste before u add d scent leaves and Banga stew is ready..
In the South Eastern parts of Nigeria, Banga Soup is referred. In the Niger Delta areas, Banga soup is commonly eaten with various fufu recipes: Starch, Pounded Yam, Semolina, Garri and Cassava Fufu. In the South Eastern parts of Nigeria, Banga Soup is referred to as Ofe Akwu where Ofe means Soup / Stew and Akwu means palm fruit and is used mainly as stew for Boiled White Rice. This is the one Nigerian stew you must taste at least once in your life time. You wouldn't know what hit you in the first few seconds of tasting boiled white rice with Ofe Akwu!
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