How to Prepare Perfect Efere Ibaba Soup

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Efere Ibaba Soup. Efere means soup in Efik, hence the name of this dish. Like the woman in the market said, Ibaba in food terms is THE star of the dish. I had forgotten I had this thickener at home until I went hunting for my Ofor in the place where I keep all my thickeners.

Efere Ibaba Soup Add your palm oil, allow to cook properly in the stock. Taste to be sure you are happy with it. With the soup thickened to your preference, add some. You can have Efere Ibaba Soup using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Efere Ibaba Soup

  1. It's of Goat Meat.
  2. Prepare of Stockfish.
  3. Prepare of Smoked fish.
  4. You need of Snail.
  5. Prepare of Palm oil or fresh palm fruits extract (banga).
  6. Prepare of Salt.
  7. You need of Dry pepper.
  8. Prepare of Fresh pepper.
  9. It's of Uziza.
  10. It's of Smoked red prawns.
  11. You need of Ibaba seeds (thickner).
  12. It's 1 piece of Uyayak.
  13. It's cubes of Seasoning.
  14. Prepare of Ground crayfish.

With the soup thickened to your preference, add some extra ground crayfish, lower the heat to allow the flavours to develop. Once you are happy with it, add in some chopped uziza,Remember to take out the Uyayak, before serving, and that's your Efere Ibaba. The paste should be very smooth. Stir the paste into the pot.

Efere Ibaba Soup step by step

  1. Season and boil your meat till tender. When it almost cooks through, add dry pepper, stockfish, smoked fish, smoked prawns and the Uyayak, to infuse flavour into the stock..
  2. Add your palm oil, allow to cook properly in the stock. Taste to be sure you are happy with it. Add ibaba powder and stir in(I usually mix some crayfish to it) this helps it not to form lumps..
  3. With the soup thickened to your preference, add some extra ground crayfish, lower the heat to allow the flavours to develop. Once you are happy with it, add in some chopped uziza,Remember to take out the Uyayak, before serving, and that's your Efere Ibaba. Very simple to prepare..

Add maggi cubes, pepper, crayfish and stir. Also see other recipes similar to the recipe for efere ibaba ibaba soup. afia efere - white soup. thecozyapron.com. Ibaba soup is mainly cooked by the efiks, ibibios and also igbos. The soup is basically thickened with ibaba seeds also called 'okpo' by the igbos. The seeds are unshelled and then cooked until bleached (the water is not black any more).