Mbanga Soup

Name: Mbanga Soup
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Cameroonian
Ingredients: 1kg fresh palm nuts, or 2 cups palm cream; 400g fish, cleaned; 2 chiles; 3 cloves garlic

Mbanga Soup/em-BAHN-gah/

Also known as: Palm Nut Soup

About this dish

A rich palm nut soup with fish or meat, deeply flavored and colored by palm cream.

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Ingredients

🌴1kg fresh palm nuts, or 2 cups palm cream

🐟400g fish, cleaned

🌶️2 chiles

🧄3 cloves garlic

Method

Serves 4

Boil and pound fresh palm nuts, then strain to extract the cream, or use pre-made palm cream.

Simmer the palm cream with garlic and chile.

Add fish and simmer gently until cooked through.

Season and continue simmering until the soup thickens slightly.

Serve with rice or fufu.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Mbanga soup is a traditional Cameroonian palm nut soup, similar to dishes found across coastal West and Central Africa.

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