Creative Sunday: Careful Preparation Of Palm nut soup With Banku & Small Okra

Hallo All!

It's another beautiful Sunday. I'm very excited 😊 to share with you my Creative Sunday. It's about time I prepared food since my wife has always been around occupying all the food preparation. This weekend has been my day; I mean my turn to prepare supper for my kids to enjoy. My wife traveled last Friday and she hasn't been back yet.

Since it's supper I planned preparing soup with some heavy food. That's "palm nut soup and banku." I bought all the ingredients yesterday in order to prepare the food fast.

Below are the list of groceries of ingredients used:

1• palm nuts
2• turkey berry
3• smoked chicken
4• onions
5• pepper
6• salt
7• fresh tomatoes
8•cassava
9• corn dough
10•charcoal
11• grater

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The process

I set up the charcoal for boiling the palm nuts and turkey berry together. It took about 30 mins. I washed my mortar and pestle. I drained the stock and began the pounding.

_{pounding my palm nut & turkey berry}

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mixing with water, removing fibre & sieving

It was time to mix the pounded palm nut with water. I separated the fibre from the palm kennels. I then sieved the mixture with a siever into the empty container.

_{the palm kennels that I separated from the fibre}

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_{the fibres removed}

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_{at the time of sieving the palm nut soup}

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I then steamed my chicken and other ingredients like grinded pepper, onion, salt and fresh tomatoes in my silver used for making soup. I allowed the ingredients and the meat to boil well.

_{Grinding pepper and onion in the grinding dish}

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_{steaming the chicken other ingredients and spices}

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I sieved the palm soup for the second time to ensure that there was fibre particles left in the soup. I then poured the soup into the steaming meats. I topped up the coal pot with the charcoal to let the soup boil fast. I left it to boil and began the preparation of banku.

_{the boiling palm nut soup on fire}

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Preparation of banku with corn dough & cassava dough

As I listed the ingredients; I peeled the cassava and washed them well to prevent any dirt. I began to grate the cassava using the grater. This grater device is very sharp so when I'm grating I take extra care.

_{grating the cassava after peeling and washing}

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_{the cassava dough that I grated was ready to mix with the corn dough}

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_{the corn dough ready to mix with the cassava dough}

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_{the mixture of corn dough, cassava dough, water and salt}

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I began paddling the banku on fire. Once that I had mix and set it on fire, the rest was to regulate the fire till it cooks well. Paddling banku needs a lot of patience to stir the stick through the mixture till the whole mixture stirs up. It was burning so I had to remove some of the charcoal for it to take time to cook well.

_{stirring banku with the banku paddle}

After 45mins, the banku was ready. I began to mold them into transparent light rubber. The banku was very hot so I had to exercise patience. I then finished molding all.

_{molding the banku into transparent rubbers}

_{the finished banku ready for our supper}

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It was left with the okra. As we know, banku always goes with okra even if you add different soup. The okra serves as additive which support enjoying the meal.

I then washed grate the okra. Some people prefer chopping with knife but isn't fast compare to grating. Grating too gives very fine particles. When I finished grating, In then put it on fire to boil for some minutes.

_{Okra was set on fire}

After 10mins time, the okra was ready and the whole meal was ready to be enjoyed with my kids. This was actually how my Creative Sunday went. Thanks for your attention!