Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, okpa (bambara nut cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Okpa (made with Bambara nut flour) Okpa is a traditional Nigerian food; very popular in the eastern parts of Nigeria and tastes really good. It is made with Bambara flour( Vorandzeia subterranean (L.) thouars). Bambara nut menu rangers from boiled Bambara nut, fried, roasted, bean cake (okpa), and fruit drink. these nutritious Bambara beans are good for breakfast, healthy snacks, and as a desert.

Okpa (Bambara nut cake) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Okpa (Bambara nut cake) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook okpa (bambara nut cake) using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Okpa (Bambara nut cake):

1. Take Okpa flour (1 & ¹/² mudu)
2. Prepare Palm oil (1 bottle)
3. Take Scotch bonnet pepper (as desired)
4. Get Onions (2 big bulbs)
5. Make ready Seasoning cubes and salt (to taste)
6. Make ready Crayfish (1 cup) grinded
7. Prepare Luke-warm water

Okpa (Steamed Bambara groundnut Cake) is a street food that you see around being hawked from time to time. It is not as common as its Moin Moin (steamed cowpea) counterpart in Lagos but it gets its own glory as it is loved by many especially by the wise people from the Eastern part of Nigeria. Akara balls made from okpa beans (Bambara nuts). If you like akara made with black eyed pea, you'll love this.

Instructions to make Okpa (Bambara nut cake):

1. Sift Okpa flour in a bowl, add palm oil to it and mix until you get a yellowish mixture, add luke-warm water, mix and dissolve the powder until a smooth paste is formed and there are no lumps. Your mixture shouldn't be too watery or too thick (just right).
2. Add some salt and seasoning cubes to taste, add chopped onions, blended scotch bonnet pepper and crayfish. Mix together. Scoop the paste mixture into banana leaves, nylons or foil paper. Here, I use white nylon. Tie and put in a pot of hot boiling water. Allow to cook until the Okpa is ready.
3. Allow to cook until the Okpa is ready. You can add more water to the pot if you notice that the water is drying up and the Okpa isn't ready.
4. Your Okpa is ready! Enjoy!

Very filling with that okpa flavour in there. But the secret to making the best Okpa is to use as few ingredients as possible because okpa beans (Bambara Groundnut or Bambara Beans) have a natural delicious flavour. To start with, Okpa is best known as "Okpa" in Igbo, "Epa-Roro" in Yoruba, and "Kwaruru" or "Gurjiya" in (Hausa). Nutritional Value of Okpa (Bambara nut pudding) Nutritional content of okpa. If you are travelling to Enugu, Nigeria from Onitsha, Lagos etc, anywhere from the west of Enugu, these shouts from Okpa sellers will remind you that you are approaching Enugu.

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