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Easy ways to prepare Banga stew or Ofe akwu | Ewacoltd
Extract the palm fruit concentrate from the palm fruits. Cook the beef and the dry fish with one bulb of diced Onion and the stock cubes till done. Wash and cut the scent leaves into tiny pieces. The scent leaves gives the Banga stew (Ofe Akwu) its unique Aroma and taste. The Palm fruit Oil Extract used in cooking Banga soup or Stew is quite different from the palm oil used in cooking Nigerian food recipes. Palm oil is pure oil extracted from the palm fruit pulp at high temperature, while the palm fruit oil extract used for Banga soup/ Stew is extracted at a very low temperature and is a mixture of oil and water. Palm fruit oil extracted for Banga soup or Stew contains less saturated fat than palm oils.