Nutrition
Ademe Soup
• Ademe soup
Ademe soup is a green leafy soup made with Ademe leaves. It can be served with hot banku, rice and ewopkle.
Ingredients
• ½ cup of palm oil
• One piece of fermented fish(momoni)
• One medium sized onion
• Three medium sized tomatoes (in puree form)
• Six peppers
• One tablespoon of fish powder
• 100 grammes of cow hide (wele)
• 200 grammes of crabs
• 150 grammes of smoked tuna
• One kilogramme jute leaves, ayoyo/ademe/ewedu leaves
• ½ tablespoonful of saltpetre
• 1⅓ tablespoonful of salt
Preparation
-Heat palm oil in a saucepan over
medium heat, add fermented fish, sliced onion and stir.
Add the tomato puree, blended scotch bonnet pepper, stir and let it simmer for eight minutes.
-Add salt, fish powder, stir and let it simmer for a minute before adding the cow hide, crabs, stir and let it cook for 10 minutes.
-Add smoked tuna, stir and leave to simmer on low heat for five minutes.
-Pour the jute leaves into a saucepan, add water, saltpetre, stir and let it cook for seven minutes.
-Pour the cooked leaves into the stew, adjust the salt, stir and let it simmer for five minutes on low heat.
-Ademe soup ready to serve.
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Nutrition
Palm nut soup
Palm nut soup is a Ghanaian dish that can be served with so many foods. It has a rich base of palm nuts combined with tomatoes and various vegetables that makes it very nutritious.
Preparation
Ingredients
– 1 kilogramme of palm nut
– Half kilogramme of beef
-One kilogramme of goat meat
-Three large salmon
-One full tuna
– A handful of turkey berries
-Two large onions
-4 large tomatoes
-3 large garden eggs
– One tin of mackerel
-Ten large peppers
– One large ginger
-2 cloves of garlic
– Four fingers of okro
– Salt to taste
Instructions
-Wash, cook palm nut, turkey berries, and pepper and add salt to it.
-Grind palm nut, turkey berries and pepper with mortar and pestle or mini food processor.
-Wash goat meat, beef, Tuna, salt and put on fire.
– Blend onion, garlic, ginger and tomatoes and pour on the goat meat.
– Add smoked tuna and salmon and okro to the soup.
-Use a spoon or ladle to skim off the surface oil.
-Garnish the soup with the okro or garden eggs as desired.
-Serve with fufu, banku or Omo tuo.
Nutrition
Cucumber and apple smoothie
Ingredients
-Two medium sized cucumber
-Three apples
-Four tablespoonful of honey
-Crushed ice
-Two cups of yoghurt
-One tablespoonful of blended ginger
– One tablespoonful of celery and mint
Preparation
-Wash and slice cucumber, apple into smaller sizes
-Blend until it is smooth
-Add honey and a little water to it
-Add crushed ice and yoghurt
-Blend it till you achieve your desired texture
– Then serve
