Cookingvlog #20|| Achi soup

eliany (78)in #steemvideo • last month

Welcome to my food blog today and I'm going to be showing you how to cook one of our traditional cuisine, Achi soup.

In Nigeria, soup is a mostly eaten in almost all part so in my region, staying without soup is like a car without gas, it can never move, so we like soup and that is one of our best cuisine over here. So let me tell you a little about achi.

What is achi plant?

Achi is a seed from a plant known as Brachystegia eurycoma, this tree is found in west Africa and when harvested, the sees is dried and grounded into powder then used as a tickner in a soup. It is a plant based protein, it has a sweet flavour so appetizing that one can never avoid.

Of course you know it has a lot of health benefits too numerous to mention but I will still mention some which includes;

Vitamins
Minerals
It act as a natural antioxidant
Rich in fiber
It is very good in heart health, it has that ability to lower cholesterol.
It has plant based protein

Achi act as a tickner in the soup, making it tick and smooth depending on the quantity added to a soup, it also has this sweet flavour that makes the soup very delicious or appetizing to eat.

Preparing Achi soup

So after knowing this about achi let's proceed to talk about the steps in preparing the soup. While preparing the soup, you will need a lot of protein and other ingredients to add to the soup, it depends on individual but as for me this are the ingredients I used.

Ingredients

Achi
Fish
Meat
Periwinkle
Clamps
Sea snail
crayfish
Pepper
Azuza leaf
Palm oil
Onions
Salt to taste
Seasoning cubes

Mis en place

Wash, seasoned and steam the meat, I used beef some interesting part of beef like the rips and some succulent part.

I added palm oil to the pot and heat it a little

I prepared achi and set aside, I added palm oil to it so I can moisturise it to make it smooth and avoid lumps.

I added the meat, periwinkle and the stock to the pot and allow it cook for some time

I added a little water at this point so that it cook at once evenly.

I added the dry catfish

Added sea snail (locally called nkor nkor)and allow it to cook for some time

I added clamps and allowed it to cooked for some time.

I added the crayfish

I added achi that I moisturize using palm oil then stir the pot to avoid lumps from the achi in the soup. So the stirring will helps dissolve any lumps

I finally added azuza leaf and stir consistently to be sure it is distributed evenly.

Achi soup is ready

This soup is one of the Nigerian cuisine that is used in any events, ceremony or party because it is widely eaten by almost everyone so this soup will always be seen in any ceremony.