Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, inspirational ofe akwu!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Ofe Akwu (Banga Stew) is a traditional Nigerian Stew prepared with palm fruit concentrate. In this video, I will show how to prepare this stew with tinned. Ofe Akwu is one of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria's most popular soup.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have inspirational ofe akwu! using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Inspirational ofe akwu!:
- Prepare Beaf/meat
- Get Akwu/palm nut seed š“ (banga seed)
- Prepare Stock fish
- Take Crayfish
- Prepare Red bell pepper (tatashi)
- Prepare Scotch bonnet pepper or habanero pepper
- Make ready Onions
- Get Ehu seed(roasted one)
- Take Ekpei
- Make ready leaves Scent
- Prepare leaves Curry
- Take Ugu leaf (optional) I added a few
- Prepare Seasoning cubes and
- Make ready To taste salt!
Ofe Akwu is the Igbo-style Banga Stew/Soup. Ofe Akwu (Banga soup) is a kind of stew made from palm fruit, eaten mostly by the Igbos from the eastern part of the country. Most of the foods eaten in Nigeria could always be jazed up with stew. Ofe Akwu is one of the national dishes in Nigeria.
Instructions to make Inspirational ofe akwu!:
- Wash the banga seeds, put it in a clean pot pour enough water into it and cook until tender.
- Bring it down and pound in a mortar. After pounding it seive out out the oil with some water. This is exactly what u will get.
- Then bring it to boil! After it has boiled for like 15 minutes put ur stock fish and add followed by a well beautifully sliced onions (enough). By now you must have well seasoned and par boiled ur meat, add the meat stock and allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Now grind the ehuru and add, as well as the ekpei. This is exactly what ur ehuru will look like. It will give ur ofe akwu a very wonderful and heavenly aroma.
- Now that the aroma is every where. Roughly Blend the bell pepper and scotch bonnet and add. Season It and allow to cook for 3minute.
- Roughly Blend the crayfish and add, followed by the meat. Remember u can still add any dry fish of ur choice aside the stock fish if you want. Check for salt and adjust. Then allow to simmer for 3 minutes.
- Finally… Select the curry leaves wash and add it. Ur ugu and scent leaf goes in last. remember ugu is optional. U can still cook with only curry leaves and scent leaves. If you have not been cooking ur ofe akwu with curry leaves and scent leaves together u are really missing! Try it to day and thank me later. Once you add the scent leaves with the ugu leaf u have to stir properly and bring it down! And ur highly inspirational ofe akwu is ready! š
- Note NB: u must not cover the pot while cooking ur ofe akwu from start to finish lest it will be too watery and less enticing to the eye. Thankio!
It originated from the Southeastern part of the country. People from the Niger Delta are also familiar with the recipe of the stew. How do I make ofe akwu/banga with this concentrated kernel in a jar? Lately, my appetite has been flying through the roof so my cravings are wild. (Can I do without ogiri, dawadawa & okpe? Extract the palm fruit concentrate from the palm fruits.
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