LearnWithSteem: Special Banga Soup Recipe

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Here's the recipe of Banga soup. This soup is one of the popular dish in Nigeria that is made with palm fruit and atama leaf which are the major ingredients in preparing this delicious delicacy.

Below are the complete ingredients used in preparing this soup;

Raw ingredients

Preparation Procedures

Step 1: Season and steam meat, fish, cow skin and stock fish together.

Raw meat and fish
Steaming

Step 2: Wash and cook palm fruit.

Cooking palm fruit

Step 3: When the palm fruit is ready, pound and use warm water to extract the oil by filtering the water out from the nuts.

Pounded palm fruit
Extracted oil

Step 4: Add water leaf, meat, salt, maggi and pepper to the pot and set it to cook.

main cooking process

Step 5: After cooking for 5 minutes, add shrimps and shell periwinkle and allow to cook.

Adding periwinkle and shrimp

Step 6: Lastly, add crayfish and atama leaf and let it cook for 3 minutes and the soup will be ready in no time. Do not boil for too long or else it becomes extremely thick.

Add atama leaf

This soup can be served with white rice or swallow ( fufu, pounded yam or garri).

The outcome

Banga soup is rich in nutrients, good source of protein, provides energy, rich in healthy fats and very high in fiber which is good for digestive health. There are many benefits attached to eating Banga soup.

I hope y'all learned something from my detailed recipe of Banga soup? Thank you for exploring through my special recipe.