How To Extract Palm Fruit Juice For Banga Soup At Home


Palm fruit juice or palm fruit extract is a mixture of oil and water processed from crushed palm fruit pulps and is the main ingredient for making Banga soup.

The process of making palm fruit juice or Banga extract is very simple and requires very ripe palm fruits. Palm fruit extract contains less saturated fat and is it quite different from the regular palm oils used in Nigerian soup recipes.

However, palm fruit juice or Banga extract can be used to prepare, Banga soup (Ofe Akwu), Banga rice, Abak Atama, Oha soup, etc.

Ingredients

  • Basket of palm fruits
  • Hot water
  • A sieve

Preparation

1. Wash the palm fruits, place in a pot, and cover with water. Boil for about 30 minutes till the husk is tender.

2. Strain the water out of the pot and pour the palm fruits in a mortar in batches.

3. Pound till the husk comes off the seed.

4. Scoop out the pounded fruit in batches and put it into a big pan.


5. Add warm water in batches.

6. Gently squeeze the palm fruit juice out of the kernels.

7. Use a colander to sieve out the squeezed juice into a clean pot. If you feel there’s still some juice to be squeezed out, add some more clean water and squeeze.

8. Boil the juice in the pot till the water evaporates. What will be left in the pot is your palm oil that can be used for Ofe Akwu, Banga soup, Atama soup, Black soup, etc.

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