Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, abacha (african salad). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook abacha (african salad) using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Abacha (African Salad):
- Prepare 1/2 kg dry abacha
- Prepare 2 cksp Palm Oil
- Make ready 2 knorr cube
- Take 1/2 cup crayfish
- Get to taste salt
- Take 1 bulb onion diced
- Take 3 fresh pepper
- Get 2 leaf akwukwo ofe (garden egg leaf) sliced
- Make ready 1 tbsp potash(akawu)
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):
- In a bowl add enough lukewarm water that can cover the abacha, drain and set aside; In a small plate pour in the potash and add a little water and set aside.
- Pound pepper, crayfrish and onion in a small mortar if you have any and set aside.
- In a pot, pour in Palm oil and mix in the potash water and stir till you get a yellow paste, add your pounded crayfish, salt, onions, pepper and knorr cube mix everything together
- Add the drain abacha into the oil paste and stir proper, add the garden egg leaf, stir and serve with fried fish
- I decided to dice some of the garden leaf and onions separately so I can sprinkle on it
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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