Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a Easy dish, abacha(african salad)… native style. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Abacha(African Salad)… Native style is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Abacha(African Salad)… Native style is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 African Salad is Igbo Food. 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. Ingredients: Abacha Ugba Ukazi Canda/pomo Stockfish Mackerel fish Crayfish Dried shrimps Palm oil Ehuru Ngu or edible potash Scotch bonnet peppers Dried pepper Seasoning cubes Onion Salt to taste.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook abacha(african salad)… native style using 11 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Abacha(African Salad)… Native style:

1. Prepare 300 g Abacha (Dried tapioca)
2. Make ready 100 ml palm oil
3. Make ready 3 tablespoons potash(or bicarbonate of soda)
4. Get 100 g Ugba(fermented oil Bean)
5. Make ready 3 dried fish
6. Take 10-15 Utazi leaves
7. Prepare 1 medium onion
8. Take 12 Ehuru seeds
9. Make ready 3 tablespoons blended Crayfish
10. Make ready 2 tablespoons blended pepper
11. Take Salt and seasoning (to taste)

Abacha, also known as African Salad in English, is a highly nutritious and sumptuous delicacy native to the Igbos in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. Abacha originated from the igbos in South East Nigeria and "Abacha" is an igbo word. Other names: African salad is popularly called "Abacha. Abacha and Ugba also known as African salad is a Cassava based dish from the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria.

Steps to make Abacha(African Salad)… Native style:

1. Soak the Abacha in warm water for 30minutes to soften, then using a seine drain the water out
2. Roast the Ehuru seeds on naked flame for about 3-5minutes(this brings out the aroma better) remove the shell and blend
3. Wash and cut the utazi leaves, also wash and chop the onion. Clean up the dried fish and set aside
4. Get the Ugba ready (if you bought the ones wrapped with leaves, place them on naked flame a bit with the leaves to roast for about 3-4minutes.(this also gives it a different traditional flavor) Remove from the the wrap and set aside for use
5. Mix 2 tablespoons of potash (or bicarbonate of soda) with warm water thoroughly & sieve out the water, then set aside
6. In a large clean bowl, add in the palm oil, then 3 tablespoons of potash (from the one sieved out in No. 5)
7. Mix both thoroughly to get a smooth light paste
8. Add in the blended crayfish
9. Then add in the pepper and blended Ehuru seeds
10. Add in some salt too
11. Then add in the Ugba
12. And mix all together thoroughly
13. Add in the Abacha, then 1 cube of seasoning and finally mix all thoroughly together
14. Plate with the Utazi leaves, chopped onion and the dried fish
15. You can heat it up a little to be warm before serving
16. And then I got naughty and plated like dis
17. Your Abacha is ready to eat. It's best taken with some wine👍👌

Abacha is simply dried shredded Cassava while Ugba on the other hand is fermented African oil bean seed. I was introduced to Abacha by my Igbo neighbours back in Nigeria,must have been in. African Salad can serve as a meal as well as a snack. Learn how to make this correct Nigerian recipe. Though it can be as filling as any other main course meal, African Salad is usually eaten as an in-between meal.

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