BANGA SOUP RECIPE AND STARCH – THE NIGER DELTA WAY!!!

Areeeeeeeaaaa! Yes oh! Finally the Banga soup recipe has arrived and I’m soooo nice, there’s a bonus section on how to make starch and another section on how to chop am! C’mon, starch is food for royalty! Some of you are asking “shey na the starch wey dem dey use for cloth you dey chop”? Ehn…na hin. When you wack the thing with banga soup everything will just be going down fiam fiam fiam. I love Starch and Banga! I just got a bright idea while doing this post but I’ll share that with you later! Please watch the video (it’s short) to really understand how it was prepared, and if you haven’t subscribed to my YouTube channel yet, please do by clicking HERE

Okay…three waffi chicks, my friend Jemie, Semilore’s mom and myself decided to meet up to eat our beloved delicacy. So we gathered in my house oh, when I saw what was going down I quickly whipped out my camera…it was fun to film and we finished the pot of banga in one sitting. Banga soup is the easiest soup on earth to prepare.

INGREDIENTS

Banga/Palm nuts (You can used the tinned one but e can never be like the original lol)

Banga Spices which is typically ataiko and irugeje

Salt

Maggi

Fresh catfish

Smoked chicken

Periwinkle

Onions (optional)

Beletete leaves

Dry blended pepper

If you’re using palm nuts then follow step 1, if you aren’t skip to step 2

This banga spice was gooooood!

Periwinkle

Beletete

Banga Spices

Fresh Catfish

Smoked Chicken

STEP 1

Wash palm nuts, and place in a pot with water to boil
After 30 minutes it should be thoroughly cooked so drain the water
Place the banga in a bowl/pot/mortar and pound gently to extract the juice OR knead with your hands
When the skin is peeled from the nuts, add warm water and sieve out the juice.
Repeat the process 2 more times to ensure you extract all the juice.

sieving the extract

STEP 2

Place the extract from the palm nut or tin in a pot and bring to boil.
Add banga spices (this spice brand we found was amazeballs!).
Add periwinkle, smoked chicken, fresh catfish, salt, maggi, pepper…add everything and bring to boil.
After about 20 minutes the soup should be cooked, thicker and with oil floating on top.
Add a sprinkle of beletete leaves and allow cook for another 5 minutes…

Food don don be that oh! Bobo is still trying to get Starch converted so he chose to have his with white rice. Me I settled wella with my starch and I blessed the name of the Lord for giving us food this goooood!

Ps: You can add crayfrish/smoked fish but when I use catfish I don’t like to disturb the flavour…