Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, afere abak (atama soup). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Afere Abak (Atama Soup) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Afere Abak (Atama Soup) is something that I have loved my whole life.

Abak Atama Soup is a delicious soup popular amongst the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom State in Southern Nigeria. Its name is derived from the two dominant ingredients: Palm Fruit Concentrate (Abak) and Atama Leaves. Abak Atama Soup is similar to Banga Soup and Abak Mbakara, so it can also be served with Starch, Pounded Yam, Amala, Wheat Meal, Tuwo Masara, Tuwo Shinkafa or Eba.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have afere abak (atama soup) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Afere Abak (Atama Soup):

1. Prepare Assorted Meats like shaki,,Beef, Roundabout, Liver etc
2. Make ready Pomo
3. Take (Head) Stockfish
4. Prepare 2 Dried Fish
5. Prepare Periwinkles cuts and washed thoroughly
6. Make ready Atama leaves finely sliced and pounded very well
7. Make ready 1 Derica of Palm Fruits
8. Take Uyayak (spice)
9. Make ready Crayfish
10. Take You add fresh Sea foods of your chioce. It goes well with it

Atama is a spicy, aromatic leaf that can be used dried or fresh; the dried leaves are a lot more pungent in flavour. Abak Atama Soup is a delicious soup popular amongst the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom State in Southern Nigeria. Its name is derived from the leave and palm fruit. Atama leaves give the soup its unique aroma as well as taste.

Instructions to make Afere Abak (Atama Soup):

1. Wash all the meat and pomo thoroughly - seasoned with onions, garlic, salt, black pepper, shallot and seaoning cube of your choice. - And cook, (i never add water to my meat) only till the stock is about to dry out.
2. Wash your palm fruit and cook till very tender/ soft. - Put in a mortal and pound till the shaft are totally removed from the nuts. - Then wash with warm water to extract the juice or oil - wash it but dont make it too watery.
3. While the meats and pomo is still cooking, pour in the palm fruit extract (oil sauce) into the pot and continue to cook… - Add the Uyayak spice now. - You can add the stock fish now to cook along with the meat.
4. After about 20 mins, You may add the Dried Fish and shelled Perwinkles… - Season with salt and some freshly pounded. - yellow Cameroonian pepper…
5. Lastly, add in the Pounded Atama leaves and just covet it up for 2mins - Open up stir and put in your shrimps or crayfish.. - taste for salt… - You can crumpled in the remaining one cube of season…
6. The palm fruit exacted or juice should thicken as you cook along and when the atama leaves enters into the pot, it become even more thicker and so rich in aroma an taste. - The Atama leaves should cook for about 5mins and the soup is ready to be eaten.

Just ask for atama in Nigerian markets where soups ingredients are sold. Abak Atama soup is a dish popular amongst the Ibibios in Akwa Ibom. The palm fruit used for the Abak Atama Soup is extracted at very low temperatures and is a mixture of oil and water. Hope y'all had a splendid weekend like i did. Over the weekend, i cooked one of my favorite soups known as Abak atama.

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