Gnetum africanum, commonly known as Eru is a wild plant that is harvested from the forest in Cameroon. A traditional meal to the Bayangi tribe. In Nigeria, it is called Ukazi or Afang. Natives of Cross Rivers State use it to prepare the famous Afang soup. Afang soup has a striking similarity to Eru but it is more “soupy” and the Eru is ground or pounded prior to preparation. Another soup that really looks like Eru is the Edika Ikong, also prepared by the Calabar people of Cross Rivers State in Nigeria. It looks almost like Eru. Being a popular dish through out Cameroon and the world at large, i am yet to come across someone who doesn’t like this delicacy. I’ll show you below how to make the perfect Eru everytime but first let’s look at some Eru don’ts: -Don’t add water after adding in your Eru. It is a ‘dry soup’ You sure need water to cook your meat/fish but make sure the water is dried before you put in your spinach/waterleaf. The spinach will provide the moist...
Nigerian Fried Rice must be the best thing that happened to birthday parties, weddings, street parties, picnics, special events and occasions. Ingredients 3¾ cups (750g) long grain parboiled rice Vegetable Oil Chicken (whole chicken or chicken drumsticks) 100g cow liver 1 tablespoon Nigerian curry powder (NOT Indian Curry) ½ cup green beans 3 carrots Salt (to taste) 3 onions 3 stock/boullion cubes 1 tablespoon thyme Before you cook the Fried Rice Cut the vegetables Cut the Vegetables Wash all the vegetables to be used in cooking the fried rice. Scrape and cut the carrots into tiny cubes. Cut the green beans into small pieces of about 0.7cm long. Soak these 2 vegetables separately in hot water for about 5 minutes and drain. Cut 1 bulb of onion. Set all these aside. Prepare the liver and chicken 1. Cook the cow liver till done and cut into tiny pieces. To save time and energy, you can cook the liver with th chicken as I did in the video below. 2. Cut the whole chick...