Palm nut soup
Palm nut soup or banga is a soup made from palm fruit[1][2] common in Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast. It is made from a palm cream or palm nut base with stewed marinated meats and smoked dried fish. It is often eaten with starch, fufu, omotuo, banku, fonio, or rice.
Cameroon
[change | change source]Mbanga soup is a palm fruit soup in Cameroon[3][4] and West Africa.[5] It is often served with kwacoco. The soup is Cameroon's version of the West African banga. In Cameroon mbanga is made using fresh palm nuts. Outside the area canned nuts can be used.[6]
Nigeria
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Banga is a type of palm fruit soup from the Niger Delta particularly among the itsekiri ethnic group.[7]
In Nigeria it is used to accompany other dishes such as Starch (Usi) for the itsekiri people of Delta State. The Igbo people have the stew and soup varieties made from palm fruits. Ofe akwu is the stew variety usually taken with rice while the palm fruit extract is used especially in Anambra region for Oha and Onugbu soup accompanied with pounded cassava. The palm fruit is important to the Igbo people. The palm fruit is often harvested from locally grown palm fruit trees, after which it is thoroughly washed, boiled and mashed for the extraction of its oil, the main ingredient in the preparation of the Banga soup.
Banga soup is flavored with beletete, aidan fruit, rohojie, Banga spice leaves called Obenetietien (scent or bitter leaves can be substituted), a stick of oburunbebe, finely chopped onion, ground crayfish, chili pepper or scotch bonnet, and salt.[8] The soup is eaten with starch made with Cassava Starch and palm-oil or rice in the south or south eastern parts of Nigeria . Banga Soup is mostly prepared using fresh catfish dried/smoked fish or meat. It can also have the addition of Okra.[9]
Obe Ẹyẹn, also known as banga soup, is a soup eaten by the itsekiri people of Southern Nigeria. It is made by extracting the liquid of palm kernels. Other ingredients like crayfish, meat, fish, pepper and cow tripe are added. It is eaten with eba or usi (starch). (Elaeis guineensis) extract.[10]
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Fufu with palm nut soup, snail and tilapia
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Saffery, D. (2007). The Ghana Cookery Book. Jeppestown Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-9553936-6-2.
- ↑ Yussif, E. (2013). The Facet of Black Culture. Trafford Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4669-8847-7.
- ↑ Osseo-Asare, Fran (November 24, 2005). Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313324888 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Crush, Jonathan; Battersby, Jane (September 23, 2016). Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa. Springer. ISBN 9783319435671 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Mbanga/Palmnut Soup". February 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Mbanga (Palm Nut) Soup". Jul 21, 2018. Archived from the original on August 5, 2021. Retrieved Jul 11, 2021.
- ↑ https://allnigerianfoods.com/banga-soup/
- ↑ How to make Banga Soup : Efik Banga Soup by Nky Lily Lete April 2013 Nigerian Food TV
- ↑ Saffery, David (2007). The Ghana Cookery Book. Jeppestown Press. pp. 50, 51. ISBN 9780955393662.
- ↑ http://www.sisiyemmie.com/2014/08/banga-soup-recipe-and-starch-niger.html?m=1