Banga Soup Preparation || Urhobo Most Eaten Meal

My dad was the one who taught me how to prepare this meal very well and I can remember teaching a lot of my friends how to prepare it because they felt I knew better how to prepare delicious banga soup.

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Banga soup is a native soup of the Urhobo tribe from Delta in Nigeria. I am a proud girl of the Urhobo land so I would be giving my tribe a bad look if I don't know how to prepare our most eaten meal which is banga soup.

Banga soup may just seem like a soup but it's medicinal and healthy benefits are so many, the ingredients in it makes it very medicinal and healthy.

Ingredients Used For Banga Soup

• Palm fruits
• Fish or meat (I'll be using fish)
• Cow skin (Kpomo)
• Grinded dried pepper
• Dried bitter leaf
• Dried green leaf
• Banga spices
• Crayfish
• Onions
• Maggi
• Salt

These ingredients changes depending on the kind of banga soup you wish to prepare. These ingredients are mainly for a dried fish banga soup where dried grinded pepper is mainly used instead of fresh pepper. Although the banga spices can be used for any kind of banga soup because they are the main ingredients actually.

Procedure For Banga Soup Preparation

Banga soup preparation isn't so difficult aside the fact that you would have to extract the oil from the palm fruits which has been made easy because they now sell processed ones.

Well, I didn't get the processed ones from the market because I prefer getting my meal done myself from start to finish. This is the palm fruit from which I boiled for up to 30 minutes to make it softer for extraction.

I couldn't get picture of it when I was extracting the oil from the fruit but the palm fruits were pounded and I extracted the juice from it.

After that, I placed the pot of the extracted juice on my gas cooker and covered it half way so it doesn't pour out when it boils.

After 20 mins, I poured my already grinded onions to make it thicker. Onions has a catalyst in it to make your light food get thick faster.

Then I added my spices one after the other apart from the Maggi. I always prefer adding my Maggi as the last ingredient.

I added the grinded pepper according to the quantity of the banga soup I was preparing. I don't like too much pepper meals so I made such it wasn't too much on it.

This is also the stage I added crayfish, I also prefer grinding the crayfish so I don't see it in my meal. I poured the crayfish and was able to cover it for some time.

I washed and added my cow skin (Kpomo) I'm yet to know the benefits of kpomo 😂 but I love to eat it in my meals so I don't exempt it from my soup.
I added to the soup before adding the fish so it could get softer because I prefer the soft kpomo 😋

I washed the dried fish with salt and soaked it in hot water for about 5 minutes. This is because the fish gets back to almost it's original size that way since it was dried and smaller before.

After adding the kpomo, I added the dried fish to the boiling soup. I added the fish almost last to avoid making it softer. After that, I added two cubes of Maggi to taste and my banga soup was ready.

And that's the end result of my banga soup, this soup has some amazing benefits like building strong bones, prevents heart disease, prevents cancer risk, prevent Alzheimer's disease and improves Vision.

Banga soup is best eaten with Starch but I ate mine with Eba. I hope the procedure was clear, I hope to give a better description some other time when I could get someone to help me snap every process.