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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Merit, what is beletete? 🤔
All these rich man's food ehn..this is looking more expensive in my eyes 👀
But I've always wanted to taste banga soup one day. Maybe I should just find one Igbo friend as friend offline. What do you think? 🤔
This is amazing and I love how you prepared this. 👏
Lol beletete is beletete o
Just take it like that 😂
It's an Urhobo soup o, not igbo. The igbos prepare theirs as stew, definitely won't taste like this one.
🤔🤔
I read it 👁️👁️
What did you read, monitoring spirit? 😆
Chaiii
Merit why?😤😤😤
Why are you making me salivate from a loooooonnnnggg distance…?
That banga soup is giving
Haha sorry, I didn't mean to 🤭
It was so delicious.
😭😭😭😭
Send my own through Bluetooth 🤣🤣🤣
Lol Bluetooth still exists? 😂
Merit add voice over naaa😩😩😩 the music was nice but I want explanation before I follow this steps and cook something else. I’ll call you when I want to prepare banger. Been a while I ate this, it’s looking delicious
Lol sorry, I did the editing at night so I couldn't start doing a voice over 😅
I'll try to do my videos much earlier so I can add it for you.
Ok ok, I was just seeing your hand dance in front of the pot
I wanted to ask
How many Maggi before I put 7 🤭🤭
Now when should I visit again 🌚🌚
Lol 7 ke
When you're not cooking for 14 people? 😂
Visit again now
Looks delicious and I would love to taste it. Send some to my place.
!PIZZA
Haha I wish I could.
This looks tasty and yummy 😋, wish I could taste some. But anyways your creativity is truly outstanding and preparing this meal is wonderful. Nicely done and good job 👍
Thank you 🙂
A lot of women doesn't like preparing this soup because it's a bit stressful...they now buy the banga squizzed water from the mall..I don't know how to put it but u know what I mean..lol
Lovely and always with many proteins merit
Enjoy 🥰😍
Lol I understand, it's the only stressful part of making the meal so I will still choose to do it myself than buy the packaged ones.
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