Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tuwon shinkafa and gbegiri soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Late last year, the Nigeria Youth Service Corps decided to send me to the Northern part of the country, Zamfara State to serve my country. Getting to the north, I decided to look a little bit into their culture and this is their first meal that I learnt (Tuwo Shinkafa). Tuwo Shinkafa is a northern Nigerian fufu recipe that is prepared with the soft rice variety. It is usually served with Northern Nigerian soups: Miyan Kuka, Miyan Taushe etc.
Tuwon shinkafa and gbegiri soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Tuwon shinkafa and gbegiri soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook tuwon shinkafa and gbegiri soup using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tuwon shinkafa and gbegiri soup:
- Prepare Potash
- Prepare Pepper
- Prepare For the swallow
- Prepare Tuwon shinkafa
- Prepare Semovita
- Get Water
- Take For the soup
- Make ready 2 cups Beans
- Take Okpeye
- Make ready Smoked fish
- Take Kpomo
- Take to taste Crayfish
- Take Seasoning
- Make ready Salt
- Get Palm oil
Tuwo Shinkafa (Tuwon Shinkafa) - is a Nigerian local dish made from raw rice and also with Rice flour. Gbegiri soup This soup has such a great and outstanding aroma and taste, the colour will attract and have you asking for more, this soup needs just a little ingredients and you are set, popular with the yoruba tribe gbegiri is also enjoyed among other natives of Nigeria, Hausa people for example enjoy this soup with tuwon shinkafa. Tuwo shinkafa (Tuwon shinkafa) is a rice meal, popular in the northern parts of Nigeria. It is usually served as an accompaniment for soups and stews and is quite easy to prepare.
Instructions to make Tuwon shinkafa and gbegiri soup:
- To make Tuwon, wash the rice (it has its own special rice used to make swallow, but if one wants to make use of the normal rice it takes time to soften)well and put on fire with plenty water till very soft, (to check if its ready, it can be stirred with turning stick once in a while)then gradually add semovita while stirring remove from fire, stir till firm and serve.
- For the soup, wash beans to remove skin put on fire add potash to soften and dissolve the beans (there should be know whole beans left) put on fire and cut kpomo and pour in.
- Grind pepper and crayfish and add, add Palm oil, Seasoning, Salt, okpeye and wash smoked fish and add allow to boil (it shouldn't be too thick cus it will still thicken on its own when placed to cool).
- Remove from heat and serve with prepared Tuwon shinkafa.
Tuwo shinkafa (Tuwon shinkafa) is a rice meal, popular in the northern parts of Nigeria. It is usually served as an accompaniment for soups and stews and is quite easy to prepare. Tuwo shinkafa is usually prepared from scratch with short grain rice (local rice), but it can also be prepared with rice flour (which is the easiest&fastest method). Gbegiri soup is a very popular Nigerian beans soup. It's made with black eyed or brown beans.
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