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Greetings my steemit family. I have come again to participate in this amazing contest of DIY by @mesola. I’ll be writing step-by-step process on how to cook Ofe akwu(banga stew) with white rice.

Ingredients used

INGREDIENTS USED
• Crayfish
• Pepper
• Ehu/Ehuru (African nutmeg)
• Ogiri okpei (Fermented castor seed)
• Seasoning cubes
• Onions
• Scent leaves
• Pumpkin leaves
• Onga spice
• Salt and
• The palm fruit itself

STEP1
Wash the palm fruit and put in a pot. Add water and place on a fire to cook until soft. Bring it down from the fire .

The palmfruit

STEP2
Put in a mortar and pound it until the fresh separates from the seed.

STEP3
Sieve out the chaff using warm water and place the extract on the fire .

STEP4
Allow it to boil, then we go in with our ingredients. Allow to cook for five minutes before adding our scent leaf and pumpkin leaf. Steam for one minute and bring the pot down from the fire. Our banga stew is ready to be consumed with either white rice or starch.
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Our cut vegetables

PROCEDURE ON HOW I COOK MY WHITE RICE
Pour clean water in a pot and set on a fire. When the water boil, pour your rice in it and cook for three minutes. Sieve out the rice, this process is called parboiling the rice. Then pour another clean water in a pot and allowed to boil. Pour in the parboiled rice and cook till it’s soft. Our white rice is ready to be consumed, bring the pot down and off the gas.

This is procedure I used in cooking my banga stew and white rice. It came out delicious even in the absence of meat/fish.

NOTE: Ehuru and Ogiri okpei is a local spice that adds flavour and aroma to the stew.

All the picture where taken with my phone, Samsung galaxy A05.

Thank you for reading my article. I still remain my humble self @juli30, see you in my next article bye.

I norminate @dazzle55 , @benton3 and @familytreasure to participate in this contest.

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