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While growing up, we didn’t often go to the restaurant to eat, but sometimes we just get snacks or rice from fast foods once in a while, me in particular I loved getting jamaica sauce and rice or chicken and chips as they were my best foods then.
I wasn’t really a fan of soups or heavy food, but along the line I started falling in love with home made cooked meals.
I like jollof rice, fried rice, ogbono soup, owho soup, Okro soup and as an ijaw girl chicken pepper soup was top notch, but my best soup is Banga soup & starch.
I like this soup because the taste is really nice, its taste juicey and flavours from the spice is everything too.
This soup is quite easy to prepare, let me tell you how to make:
-firstly, you have to wash and boil the banga (palm nut fruit) till the outer part of the seed is soft after which you extract the juice and put in a clean pot.
-Add a little amount of dry bitter leaves,diced onions, banga soup spice,a stick of licorice and pepper, allow to boil, then add your already parboiled beef or chicken and fish, and sea foods(periwinkle, shrimps or crabs) also allow to boil, then lastly add seasoning to taste, and it can be served with any swallow of choice but I like mine with starch.
I always love eating this dish at home because most restaurants don’t really do justice to making it well, it is also my mums best food, so always made sure that the taste was always hitting hard.
This meal isn’t really expensive unless you want it to be, it would actually become expensive if you want to start adding sea foods because those are quite expensive in the market. This meal can be prepared with as low as 4000naira, in dollar ($8.69).
This meal became my favorite from when I was almost becoming a teenager and often eat at least three times in a month.
I love eating it with my mum, because she made sure to always give me plenty of meat and fish.
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