Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, abacha (african salad). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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African salad (Abacha) is a delicious west African food that is native to the ndi Igbo (people of Igbo), here is all you need to know about this Nigerian Delicious Dessert and even all the ingredients used in. Abacha and Ugba also known as African salad is a Cassava based dish from the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria. African Salad can serve as a meal as well as a snack.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook abacha (african salad) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Abacha (African Salad):
- Get Dried abacha - (Two 50 naira sizes)
- Prepare 1 cup Palm oil
- Prepare Potash -1 medium size
- Get Onions -1 big bulb
- Get 5 pcs Fresh pepper
- Get Garden egg leaves (anyara)
- Make ready Fish - 3 small sizes
- Get Vegetable oil for frying fish
- Get 2 pcs Calabash nut meg (ehuru)
- Take Uziza seed -1tbsp
- Take 1 cup Crayfish
- Make ready Seasoning cubes and salt (as desired)
It can be served as a meal or snack at home, restaurants or parties. The cassava tubers are cooked till done then sliced with a special grater. Ingredients used in making abacha or African salad vary from person to person. Abacha is basically dried shredded cassava mixed with palm oil and other condiments.
Instructions to make Abacha (African Salad):
- Soak dried abacha in water until soft, drain to remove excess water. Set aside!
- Dissolve potash in water and filter to remove sand and stones. Pour palm oil in a pot, add the potash water and start stirring fast in a circular motion until a thick paste is formed. Add the seasoning cubes and salt to taste, add crayfish, add blended ehuru and Uziza seed. Add chopped onions, add roughly blended pepper. Add the washed and chopped garden egg leaves. Mix to fully combine all the ingredients together.
- Add the abacha and mix together (do not carry out these process on the fire) mix everything in the pot, do not heat.
- Cut and wash fish,sprinkle some salt and fry in hot vegetable oil until golden brown and well fried.
- Your African salad is ready, serve with the fried fish… Enjoy!
Today we are cooking the delicacy of the people of Enugu - a welcome dish called Abacha (African Salad). The main ingredient in Abacha is dried shaved cassava. The cassava is re-hydrated with water and combined with spices and seasonings. Traditionally Igbo cuisine is the various foods of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. There are many dishes that are common to the Igbos in particular, but one that cuts across Igbos in the South-East and South-South is Abacha also popularly known as the African Salad.
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