The African kitchen show #8 (How To Cook Atama Soup)

Dear Friends ❤️

Its my pleasure to welcome you all to the 8th Edition of the African kitchen show! I trust you had a wonderful weekend, and I'm wishing a pleasant week ahead. Friends I'm pretty excited about this particular edition of the show and this is simply because I prepared something unique this week, A wonderful dish with sweet aroma and flavor, a spicy soup which can be serve as a veggie dinner it's non other than the "Atama Soup."

^{My Atama Soup with swallow}

Atama leaf is indigenous to West Africa but especially the southern part of Nigeria. Atama Soup is a delicious palm nut soup, native to Ibibio/Efik people of Akwa Ibom/Cross River State. Atama Soup is not just sumptuous but it's nutritious and healthful! Flavourful, and unusual, you may cook this soup with variety of ingredients, (orishirishi) assorteds including egusi ~ melon to make it taste different.

The soup is similar to one of our famous traditional soup ~ Banga Soup, the only difference is the Atama leaves which gives the soup a distinctive taste and aroma. Yeah the leaf is an aromatic veggie, wildly grown in our locality. Let me hint you a bit about the health benefits of Atama leaf.

Health Benefits Of Atama Leaf (Heinsiacrinite):

^{Atama leaf}

• As I said before, Atama leaf is not only tasty but healthy too, it's full of vitamins and fibre. The Vitamins includes A, B,C, E and folic acid. It contains Minerals such iron and calcium. The leaves is good at curing anemia cause by iron deficiency, since it aids formation of red blood cells.

• It's wound healing.

• it's good for fertility as it boost ovulation and increasing passion. Lol I love this.

• It lowers bad blood cholesterol and raising good cholesterol in the body.

• It aids in treatment of low sperm counts and increasing production of sperm.

• It helps in managing blood Sugar Level.

Let's Get To Cooking! You know some people used to cook the soup with water leaves, while some with palm fruit extract, I love the later!

Ingredients:

Ingredients needed for the soup includes Atama leaves, palm fruits, stock fish, goat meat, cow skin, periwinkles, crayfish, oysters, smoke catfish, pepper, salt, and seasoning cubes.

Preparation:

• Wash and cook the Palm fruits, then pound the Palm fruits.

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• Boil water and add to the pounded palm fruit, wash it and Squeeze out the extract and then shift it out.

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• Wash and slice your Atama leaves.

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• Pound the leaves, Boil water and add to the pounded leaves, leave it for sometime the wash it out.

• *** Wash your meat Seasoning it with salt and seasoning cubes, and cook it.

• Wash your stock fish and add to the pot of palm fruit extract, add pounded crayfish too, seasoning cubes, and cook it for the stock fish to be soft and wash your catfish and add to the pot.

• Wash your periwinkles and oysters and add.

• Pour the meat into the soup, pound your scented pepper and put in the soup too, taste the soup to know if it's tasty 😋 and allow it simmering for sometime.

• Add your Atama leaves to the Soup! And allow it to simmer for some time

Boom Boom! Guess what? My delicious, tasty, aromatic, flavourful Atama Soup is ready!

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Friends this soup is spectacular, I don't know if there's another word to describe it than simply delicious! I devoured the soup with Swallow (eba) and downloaded it with fruit juice, then I slept off immediately, Haha 😂 you really need to have a taste of it. You know where there's absence of the leaf, Nigerians in diapora Remix the taste of Bush apples (Atama leaf) with the combination of bitter leaf and tarragon.

Yeah this is the 🔚 of this week's edition, and I'm wishing you a wonderful week! I hope you like my Atama soup. Note I welcome 🤗 suggestions, you can contact me on telegram https://t.me/goodybestt. Bye and see you next week!!!

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