Ugba (oil bean). Ugba (also known as Ukpaka in some Igbo dialects) is oil bean seed. Powdered edible potash is used to make the red palm oil curdle. The recipe for Ugba requires the red palm oil to be in that state.

Ugba (oil bean) Developing countries are faced with many food-related challenges especially as it pertains to meeting up with the increasing food demand. For instance, the Igbos call it Ukpaka or Ugba, in Yoruba, it is known as Apara while the Efik tribe call it Ukana. Common Name : African Oil bean Botanical Name : Pentaclethra macrophylla Family Name: leguminoseae Nigeria local Names: ukpaka or ugba (Igbo) Apara (Yoruba), ukana (Efik).

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Ugba (also known as Ukpaka in some Igbo dialects) is oil bean seed. Powdered edible potash is used to make the red palm oil curdle. The recipe for Ugba requires the red palm oil to be in that state.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ugba (oil bean) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Ugba (oil bean):

{Prepare of Ugba (oil bean).
{Take of Red oil.
{Prepare of Potash.
{Prepare of Cray fish.
{Get of Black fish.
{Get of Cow meat.
{Get of Kpomo.
{Make ready of Maggi.
{Prepare of Salt.
{Take of Yellow pepper.

In Nigeria, the oil bean is called Ugba or Ukpaka. Ugba vegetable soup aka ofe ugba/oil bean soup is a special delicacy from Eastern Nigeria. It is a special soup common to the owerri people and its environs. African oil bean seed (Pentaclethra macrophylla), when locally fermented as "ugba", is used to prepare different types of food items especially in Igbo land and in Nigeria in general.

Steps to make Ugba (oil bean):

Pound ur potash add water and sieve. Cook ur meat with kpomo and set aside..
Pour ur potash water in the pot add ur red oil and stir. Then add ur ugba(oil bean).
Blend ur crayfish with ur yellow pepper and add to the mixture.
Add ur kpomo and cooked meat with black fish.
Add ur maggi and salt stir and put on fire to heat for 3-5.
Bring down and serve. Eat with cool drinks.

Ofe ugba means shredded oil bean in Igbo dialect. People from the Eastern part are more familiar with this soup. My late maternal grandma who introduced us to the soup called it ofe aragha which is. Ugba, the Fermented African Oilbean Seeds; its Production, Chemical Composition, Preservation Starter culture evaluation for the production of ugba from African oil bean seed (Pentaclethra. Ugba is a fermented oil bean seed.

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