Creative Sunday, Preparation of Afang Soup by Glorydee
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Hello wonderful hivers, welcome to
another creative Sunday, hope you all had a great week, and here is me wishing you all a fulfilled weekend, starting with the preparation of Afang Soup which I will be sharing with you all the making process.
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Afang soup is a very popular soup in Nigeria, mostly ranked as the most delicious soup because of its rich recipe which is all nutrient-packed, and the original source or should I say owners of this soup are the Calabar people, also Akwa Ibom state, the afang leaves grow vast in our rain forest and farms as a climbing plant. Another name for afang leaves is "Okazi", this is s common name by the Igbos.
Apart from its rich taste, Afang soup also has numerous health benefits, the reason why it is a favourite to so many I'll be listing a few of these benefits.
it acts as an antioxidant, therefore purifies the blood
it reduces blood sugar
it improves eyesight
helps give glowing skin
it improves heart health etc and so many more, you see why afang soup should be part of your meal at least once a week, in my family, we can't stay a week without cooking afang soup.
The recipes needed for Afang Soup are
Afang leaf
Waterleaf
stock fish
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dry fish
Periwinkle
Cameroon pepper
Palm-oil
crayfish
seasoning cubes
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- Cowskin(Ponmo) etc.
Preparation Process
Before you start cooking, the leaves and other ingredients need to be properly washed, then the afang leaf is sliced and pounded using a local mortal or blender, anyone you prefer, but I mostly prefer using my local mortar and pestle, as it doesn't make the afang leaf smoothly blended, which should be the right texture. The water leaf is also properly washed and sliced, not blended this time, and the peri-winkle needs more vigorous washing till the water you used in rinsing becomes clean, the tail of the periwinkle should be chopped off so you can easily suck it out of its shell.
Cooking Process
The meat, cowskin alongside the fish is first parboiled, adding your seasoning cubes and salt to taste
Next, you add your sliced waterless to the pot and leaves to simmer, the ratio of the water leaf to afang can be 2:1
You would notice the water leaf becomes lesser in the pot and its water extracted, now you add other ingredients, like pepper crayfish, giving it a good stir.
Note that you don't need to add any water, the stock from the meat and water from the water leaf are enough to see the soup to the end, in fact, afang soup runs on a lot of palm-oil, so you need more of it.
- if you didn't add your periwinkle in the first process, because most people like to parboil it differently adding a bit of salt, you can add it to the pot now.
- Finally, the palm oil and afang leaves goes in, taste for salt and enough seasoning according to your preference, leave to simmer for about 5 minutes, then bring the pot down.
Your delicious Afang soup is ready. You can pair it with semo, fufu, or garri, it goes with all swallows (morsel). I paired mine with eba made from garri(cassava flakes) so delicious!
So tell me, have you heard or tasted Afang soup before, how was your experience, I can't wait to read all your replies.
Till we meet in the kitchen again,
All images used in this post are mine.
Thank you for reading❤❤
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How far? I'm hungry o. Any hope of tasting from that delicacy? 😋
Oya come house, there is tasting😂🤗
On my way. No finish am before I come o....😂
I've heard a lot about this soup and seeing it confirms the rumors I've been hearing.. I will really love to try this soup out honestly cause it looks very sweet
I trust you have, 😁 it is very delicious
Delicious and appetizing sis. Hope you had a nice week. Enjoy your Sunday.
Glory I can hear your soup speaking queen's English, it's screaming... "Come and taste me George."
This is superb, I really wish to taste this. It's yummy, and rich in nutrients. I bet it's spicy as well, you did a great ma'am.
Happy Sunday.
I bet it is😂😂
I trust you to do justice to afang when you want to make it. yea, not too spicy though
Gafere afán is one of my favorite soups. Sometimes I lick like that and will be filled.
The soup looks so inviting.
Ha, you must be from my side, I also take the soup alone sometimes because it's always very tempting not to.
This is one healthy soup I know and it's simple to prepare. Cameroon pepper 🌶️ gives a nice aroma to the soup...your music on background made me to watch with excitement
Well done ✅👍
Yes, it is very healthy and simple to prepare,
I know right, it"'s Sunday, was trying to put us in Sunday mood🤗.
Thanks you ma.
This looks so much yummy, amazing cooking skills you got in you,
Well done
Afang soup 😍
I wish I could have a taste of this one you prepared now. The process look easy though, thanks for sharing.
You guys should just be oppressing us with this yummy food
Na this kind thing de make poor man finish him money
That was beautiful
I don't know when I would finally eat this soup as I have mentioned it for years now. I want to try this soup someday and I hope I don't fumble. Lol
This is amazing and I love the step by step process in the video.
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