Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a unique dish, african salad (abacha). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

African Salad (abacha) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. African Salad (abacha) is something that I have loved my whole life.

Abacha - as the Igbos love to call it - is one of the most popular food in the eastern Nigeria, it serves best as kola to visitors. African Salad can serve as a meal as well as a snack. Learn how to make this correct Nigerian recipe.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have african salad (abacha) using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make African Salad (abacha):

1. Prepare Dry Cassava flakes
2. Get Blended crayfish
3. Get Sliced fresh bonnet peppers
4. Take Sliced onions
5. Get Potash
6. Prepare Fish
7. Get Ponmo
8. Get Tomatoes and pepper blended
9. Make ready Uziza leafs sliced
10. Prepare cubes Seasoning
11. Get Salt
12. Make ready Water
13. Get Garden egg leafs sliced
14. Get Garden eggs
15. Make ready Shredded oil bean

There are many variations to the way this salad is made. Ingredients used in making abacha or African salad vary from person to person. African Salad commonly known as Cassava Noodles, Abacha, Abacha Ncha, Abacha and Ugba is a traditional snack or an appetizer usually serves to very important persons in special occasions or. One thing we must note here is that Abacha is not a meal.

Steps to make African Salad (abacha):

1. Soak the cassava flakes in clean water for about 20minutes.
2. Wash the ponmo and cook separately - If using fresh fish, cut as desired and fry.
3. Heat little vegetable oil, sauté onions and fry the blended tomatoes and peppers. Add salt and seasoning cubes. Add the ponmo and fish. Set aside.
4. The cassava flakes would have soaked and doubled in size by now. Rinse and put in a sieve to drain water. Wash the leafs, place in a separate sieve to drain water. Set both aside.
5. Dissolve the potash as needed in little water, depending on how plenty your sauce should be.
6. Sieve the potash water in a bowl, add palm oil as needed, add the shredded oil bean, add seasoning cubes, blended crayfish, salt and stir thoroughly to form a thick and yellowish paste.
7. Add the cassava flakes, sliced peppers, onions and leafs, mixing everything thoroughly to combine. Place on heat to cook for like 2 minutes. - Serve along side the peppered ponmo, fish and sliced garden eggs..

Though it can be as filling as any other main course meal, African Salad. Abacha is an Eastern Nigerian dish made from dried shredded cassava. Ever been to the east and wondered at the sight of women carrying a basin on. Abacha is basically dried shredded cassava mixed with palm oil and other condiments. Today we are cooking the delicacy of the people of Enugu - a welcome dish called Abacha (African Salad).

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