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How To Make Abak Atama Soup
Here's how to make Abak Atama soup:
This recipe is the gold standard way of making Abak Atama soup recipe from the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom State in Southern Nigeria. |
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Ingredients:- 500g of palm fruits OR canned palm cream
- 1 small piece of Uyayak
- 1 small bunch of Atama leaves, a sliced handful
- 8 medium pieces of beef
- 1 medium sized dry/smoked fish
- 1 stock fish head
- 1 cup of periwinkle in shell, optional
- 3 tablespoons of ground crayfish
- 1 tablespoon of dry/ black pepper
- 10 medium pieces of cow skin (Ponmo)
- ½ of a small onion, diced
- 2 Maggi cubes
- Salt to taste
- About 2½ liters of water (for extraction)
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Directions: 1 From the tail end of the periwinkle, cut a little piece to remove the intestine and then wash thoroughly to remove all dirts. Soak your dry/smoked fish in hot water to remove all dirts and debone then set aside.
2 In extracting your palm cream, wash your palm fruits, cook for about 20mins or till it’s soft and pound till the chaff/fibers come off the nuts. Add warm water to the pounded palm fruit and mix thoroughly.
N.B: We want a thick extract, so avoid adding too much water. With the use of a sieve, separate the extract (cream, juice, oil) from the chaffs in a pot and set aside.
3 Season your meat and cow skin with diced onions, seasoning cube and salt in a pot and steam on low heat. Add about two cups of water then add your stock fish head and cook till it’s tender and cooked thoroughly.
4 Wash your sliced Atama leaves and pound till it’s finely pounded.
5 Put the pot containing your palm (cream, juice, oily) extract to a boil for about 5 minutes.
6 Add your meat stock, cooked meat, Ponmo, washed dry/smoked fish, periwinkle, ground crayfish, pepper, uyayak and seasoning cube, stir to combine and allow to simmer for about 5-10minutes.
7 Add Atama leaves and allow to simmer for about 10minutes without stirring. Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary.
8 For the soup to be slightly thickened, allow to simmer for a bit longer (10-15mins) but it’s entirely based on preference. Take off heat and serve with Fufu, Pounded yam or Eba.
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Notes: - Uyayak's other names are Aidan fruit, Tyko, Uhio, Aridan.
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