Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bini owo with unripe plantain. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Unripe plantain/Yam with Bini Owo sauce If your from Benin, u will understand our love for this sauce. Owo soup is more like a palm oil sauce, why it is called a soup, I am still scratching my head about it. Once they have sufficiently cooked with some stock left, add your blended tomatoes and pepper. The Beni Owo soup is a traditional soup of the Southern region of Nigeria.
Bini Owo with Unripe Plantain is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Bini Owo with Unripe Plantain is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bini owo with unripe plantain using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bini Owo with Unripe Plantain:
- Prepare Ripe Tomatoes
- Prepare Fresh scotch bonnet peppers
- Take cubes Seasoning
- Prepare 1 tablespoon potash
- Take Salt (optional)
- Take Enough crayfish
- Prepare Big prawns
- Make ready Dry Catfish
- Take Onions
- Make ready Fresh fish(optional)
- Get Meat(optional)
- Take 2 cookingspoon palm oil
Instructions to make Bini Owo with Unripe Plantain: Boiled plantain and bini owo- a tasteful meal prepared by excellent & professional chefs experienced in local dishes. Made this as dinner and i really enjoyed it. The soup is usually thick and bare compared to other Nigerian soups like vegetable soup. Bini soup requires cooking with potash, stockfish and it is best served with yam or unripe plantain.
Instructions to make Bini Owo with Unripe Plantain:
- Wash everything needed for the cooking and set aside.
- Blend the tomatoes with enough crayfish, onions and the peppers.
- Cook your yam or unripe plantain, whichever you’re using and keep aside
- Parboil the meat first if using and – Pour the tomatoes mixture inside the pot with the meat. Add the prawns, dry fishes, seasoning cubes, salt and allow to boil to a very thick consistency until the water almost dries up.
- Before the tomatoes dries up water break and grind the potash if using unbroken one. Measure with 1tablespoon and add to the mixture. The colour of the Soup automatically darkens until palm oil is added.
- Drop from heat and measure 2cookingspoon of palm oil and add to the mix. Stir very well. Place back on heat to heat up the palm oil for like 3minutes before dropping finally.
- Another method of adding the potash is by disolving the blended potash in warm little water as done with Isi ewu. Put the 2cookingspoon palm oil in another pot and turn the potash liquid inside. Stir it very well to become yellowish and add it to the tomatoes mix before placing it back on heat to warm up.
- Please be generous with your palm oil, I wasn’t because I wanted it that way
The soup is usually thick and bare compared to other Nigerian soups like vegetable soup. Bini soup requires cooking with potash, stockfish and it is best served with yam or unripe plantain. Now you can serve this delicious Owo soup with boiled or roasted plantains, yams , Starch(usi), Eguoo(plantain usi) or any swallow of choice. It is a delicacy enjoyed by the people of Benin, Delta, Itsekiri, Ijaw, Isoko. Most who has enjoyed this meal tend to refer to it as stew rather than stew, especially as it is mostly served with unripe plantain or yam, rather than Eba or pounded yam.
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