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Recipe for Banga Soup
April 19, 2022
Oil palm is a perennial crop which grows in abundance in Nigeria. Its fruit, the palm fruit is juicy. Palm fruits contain oil which can be processed when ripe to produce palm oil which is used in preparing all manner of local delicacies. On our menu today is banga soup, the oil-rich delicacy that originates … Continue reading Recipe for Banga Soup
Did You Know? When Nigeria Produced Half the World’s Palm Oil Exports
April 19, 2022
There aren’t very many food ingredients as essential to local Nigerian cuisine as palm oil. The red liquid drained out of tough oil palm fruits is the fluid without which most indigenous soups, stews and snacks simply cannot exist. You couldn’t possibly have been born and bred in a southern Nigerian home and never tasted … Continue reading Did You Know? When Nigeria Produced Half the World’s Palm Oil Exports
Did You Know? Some Natural Preservation Techniques For Food Items
April 19, 2022
Did you know that you can preserve a lot of your food items naturally without putting them in a fridge. Stockfish Did you know you can preserve your dry stockfish by storing it with dry pepper? Pepper has a strong choking flavour that prevents bugs and other arthropods from destroying your stockfish. To preserve your … Continue reading Did You Know? Some Natural Preservation Techniques For Food Items
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