Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, abacha (african salad). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook abacha (african salad) using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Abacha (African salad):
- Make ready 1 kg abacha
- Take 1 kg fish
- Take 1 milk cup of red oil
- Make ready 2 knorr cube
- Prepare 1 cup crayfish
- Make ready 1 tabs of ogiri(local maggi)
- Prepare 1 tbs potash
- Get 1 handful pepper
- Get 2 big bulb of onions
- Take 3 handful ukpaka(oilbean)
- Make ready leaves garden egg
- Prepare garden egg seed
- Prepare to taste salt
- Get ehuru
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):
- Select the abacha.in a big bowl,pour in a lukewarm water that will cover the abacha.
- Allow it to get soft and drain it in a sieve
- In a bowl dissolve the potash with water
- Pound pepper,crayfish ehuru and set aside.
- In a pot add oil,make sure you use sieve while putting the potash because of sand.stir them together until you get a yellowish paste.NB (heat it a little on fire) add ehuru,pepper,knorr, ogiri and stir them properly
- Add the already drained abacha to that mixture.
- Fry the fish,wash and cut the veggies,serve as you desire
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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