Archives Tag: palm oil

Food

Recipe for Buka Stew

April 19, 2022

Buka stew is basically stew that is prepared and served in roadside restaurants. However, the classic buka stew is made by the Yoruba. It is prepared with palm oil without the addition of curry and thyme. Buka stew as you know is different from the homemade stew. While it is made for the owner’s profit … Continue reading Recipe for Buka Stew

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Cuisine Food

7 Tips For Bleaching Palm Oil

April 19, 2022

Bleaching palm oil is a process that involves heating up palm oil until it becomes translucent. Even though it is considered a necessary skill in Nigerian cooking,  a lot of people don’t know how to bleach palm oil. Them dey try oh! But their efforts always fall short of the mark. Thus, for the benefit … Continue reading 7 Tips For Bleaching Palm Oil

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Did You Know? Food

Did You Know? 6 Agricultural Products of Ekiti State

April 19, 2022

Ekiti State is located in the southwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The state is in the rainforest belt with a temperature range of 21°c to 28°c. Topographically, Ekiti State is mainly an upland zone rising above 250 metres above sea level. Agriculture is the major occupation of the people. In fact, the 16 administrative local … Continue reading Did You Know? 6 Agricultural Products of Ekiti State

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Food

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

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BUSINESS

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

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Cuisine

Food Recipe: Nkwobi

April 19, 2022

Nkwobi is a spicy mouthwatering dish from the South Eastern part of Nigeria made with cow meat, precisely the foot. It is an exotic delicacy on most menus in food joints, restaurants and bars, and is relished as an appetizer or main dish. Commercially, potash is used to prepare it, but you can substitute it … Continue reading Food Recipe: Nkwobi

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Food

Origin of Nigerian Foods: Banga Soup (Oghwo Amiedi)

April 19, 2022

Sometimes, you cannot help but wonder the ingenuity that backed up the early food discoverers who found out how to blend unrelated food items to give wholesome meals that soothe the palate. The South-South part of Nigeria is amazingly blessed with several exotic native delicacies. Top on the chart and also common to the East … Continue reading Origin of Nigerian Foods: Banga Soup (Oghwo Amiedi)

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How To

DIY Wednesday: How to Extract Oil From Palm Fruits at Home

April 19, 2022

Palm oil is the most consumed and oldest cooking oil in Nigeria. This is because, even before large-scale production of palm oil and modern-day civilization, the making and selling of the oil for home consumption and for commercial purposes has been in existence. Oil palm cultivation is originally from West Africa. Genus Elaeis guineensis is a … Continue reading DIY Wednesday: How to Extract Oil From Palm Fruits at Home

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Health

Nutritional Benefits of Palm Oil

April 19, 2022

Palm oil is highly nutritious and is an extremely useful cooking oil offering a lot of health benefits. It’s derived majorly from two kinds of palm fruit; African palm oil (Elaeis guineensis) which is found in African regions, and the American oil palm (Elaeis oleifera) which is found in South America. It contains natural unique … Continue reading Nutritional Benefits of Palm Oil

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BUSINESS

Why PZ Wilmar Is Partnering With NIFOR to Boost Palm Oil Production in Nigeria

April 19, 2022

For much of the first half of the twentieth century, ships laden with oil palm seeds would dock at the port in Singapore. The merchandise they bore were an exotic necessity, obtained from farms on the coast of West Africa. At that time, the region accounted for much of the world’s oil palm produce output; … Continue reading Why PZ Wilmar Is Partnering With NIFOR to Boost Palm Oil Production in Nigeria

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