On this episode of Wake Up Nigeria Chef Maudi prepares Abacha for breakfast.
Abacha and Ugba also known as African salad, is popular in the Eastern part of Nigeria the Igbo tribe.
Abacha is simply dried and shredded cassava while Ugba, on the other hand, is fermented African oil bean seed. Abacha is’s so easy to prepare and the ingredients are easy to source.
You can eat it as a snack or a full meal and it is usually prepared with palm oil, crayfish, ugba, etc.
The key to making a good African Salad is to make sure that all the ingredients are well incorporated.
Ingredients
- Dried shredded cassava
- Ugba or ukpaka
- Palm oil
- Powdered potash
- Fish (spiced cooked)
- Ponmo (cooked and sliced)
- Onion (sliced)
- Garden eggs (Diced)
- Garden egg leaves (chopped)
- Salt and dry pepper
- Crayfish
- Seasoning cubes
- Calabash nutmeg
- Ogiri
- Fresh utazi leaves
- Boiling water
- Ugba
See the video below for preparatory method.