How To Cook banga vegetable soup with afang

How to cook banga vegetable soup with afang. Banga (Palm nuts) soup is mostly eaten by The Southern  People of Nigeria. It can be cooked plain and thick, or with vegetables. It is very healthy. The oil is fresh unprocessed palm oil. This soup does not need water leaf cos the banga acts as a softener to vegetables.
The thickness of banga extract (Juice) depends on the quantity of water used to wash it.

HOW TO PREPARE PALM NUTS FOR BANGA SOUP

 

 Ingredients for  afang banga soup:

  1. 5 cups raw palm nuts (banga)
  2. Five cups of Pounded afang vegetables (I didn’t really pound much but you can, can even blend a little if you want. What I did is shred again and again instead of pounding because I didn’t want the soup colour to turn green, Lol).
  3. 2 medium sized dried catfish
  4. 1 kg Goat meat (You can use beef)
  5. A cup ground crayfish
  6. 1 large pack dried stock fish
  7.  One teaspoon ground fresh pepper or my pepper sauce.
  8. 1 small sized onion to boil the meat
  9. 2 seasoning cubes
  10. salt to taste
  11. water enough to cover the meat, you can always adjust by adding some more water while cooking (If soup is too thick for you)

Pounding banga palm nuts to extract palm oil for soup
After boiling till soft, palm nuts being pounded with mortar and pestle to extract the banga juice

Pounded palm nuts
Well pounded palm nuts just before extraction
 well pounded palm nuts

PROCEDURE FOR MAKING BANGA SOUP WITH AFANG LEAVES

 1. Boil palm nuts with water till skin is soft, ie can pull off the nuts easily.

Remove from boiling pot, pound, add some water and sieve the banaga separating the chaff from the thick juice.

2. Boil meat with, stockfish, salt, 1 seasoning cube, onion and pepper

when meat is almost cooked, add  the banga stock, check for salt, cover and let it boil.

  1. Add the washed and deboned dried fish, remaining seasoning cube and crayfish, check for taste, cover and let it simmer till meat is completely tender.
  2. Add the pounded afang leaves (okazi) vegetables.
  3. Stir, check for salt and thickness, if too thick you can adjust with some water.
  4. Serve with your favourite carbs… eba, semo, pounded yam Etc.

 

 COOKING STEPS FOR MAKING BANGA SOUP USING AFANG LEAVES

 

boil meat with stock fish, onion, seasoning cubes and salt

Cooking banga afang soup with step by step pictures 014
Banga afang soup is ready
turn off the cooker

For those who don’t like afang vegetables, banga vegetables soup can be made with fluted pumpkin (ugu) vegetables.
Enjoy!
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SEE MORE AFANG SOUP RECIPES:

1. Afang okazi vegetable soup

2. Easy afang soup recipe

3. Dry afang with groundnut recipe

67 thoughts on “How To Cook banga vegetable soup with afang”

  1. Wowwwwww dis is sooo nyc,m so cooking dis. I usually make mine wit saint leave, which is den eaten wit white rice #yummy#. Bt will definitely try ur own recipe. Keep up d gud work.

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  2. There are no much difference between ofeakwu and banga soup,when I cook Ofeakwu stew,I do tell my friends I cooked banga.
    Aunty Ojay tmao is ma bday.

    ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA3310

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  3. Aunty Eya,dis soup you made it look like simple ABC…..but pple have told me that infact the soup is sooo difficult to make!! That it can even take a whole day to Make!!Pls what's the hardest part in making this soup?

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  4. A whole day to cook? No way. The hardest part is boiling the banga. Because you haven't done it before and don't know that it cooks in about 25 minutes of boiling, You may just leave it to continue boiling until your gas is empty.

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  5. Well we d efiks don't use afang but a leave known as atama. D deltians add scent leaf n spices. I like ur dishes thou!

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  6. Weldone ma, its my first time commenting on ur very nice blog.my husby hates trying new meals. I made this banga veg soup over d wkend & surprisingly,he ate it very well for 2consecutive days! Ofe akwu is from the Igbos,almost same method but we use a spice known as 'okpei' & scent leave/ugu. Mostly used in eating rice. U are doing a really good job here ma, God bless you.Pls keep it up!

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  7. I was told not to rinse afang leaves b4 pounding since then I've been very uncomfortable using them!

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  8. U're too much. Keep it up and Godbless you for empowering some ladies that are not familiar with their kitchen and for strengthening others aswell….even bachelors. Kudos to u!!! Mj

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  9. Eya, this is the first time am checking your blog even though I have been seeing it on LIB, I didn't know that I have been missing a lot. I think Ofeakwu and Banga are almost the same just that the Ibos use more than one leaves in cooking it. I love to eat Ofeakwu with rice.

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  10. This is the same process for making ofe akwu for rice. Some people also eat ofeakwu with swallow, the only difference is that you exchange the afang leaf for ugu and a Lil bit of scent leaf.NB: the scent leaf has to be small o, else the taste would over power the whole soup. Hope u understand d English? *winks*

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  11. saw ur link on lindas blog,visited ur site and now im hooked.God bless u for teaching people like me new recipes .

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  12. Hi eya, well done . For banga shouldn't d bang spice b added, d seeds and d small dried leaf? Thank u

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  13. God bless you ma. My hubby had a nice birthday after cooking the afang soup. This is one is the next. Please just focus on food and recipes….That is your calling.

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  14. Yeah I jus bumped into ur site today, and I can say am so impressed wit wat I av seen so far, now I can try sum new ways of preparing sum dishes, and gosh , my husband will have sum eatings to do, he won't even think of eating out for a minute. Tanks maam for dis connections. Ekky

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  15. The normal palm oil is not exactly like this extracts. This one helps to soften the afang leaves so you don't need water leaf. If you want to cook with the normal palm oil, then you need water leaf to make normal afang soup. Scroll back up to click the link for original afang soup recipe on the Facebook button.

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