Most of us Nigerians learnt to cook by watching our mothers, grandmothers, aunties...etc. I often find it difficult to give recipes to people as we were not taught to cook with exact measurements :) So what I really like about your cooking style is that you include measurements, which would make it easy for non-Nigerians to follow. Regardless of the critiques below from the Calabars I still think YOUR TWIST on this dish will taste wonderful. Keep doing what you love. God bless!
All these people saying he did it wrong why don't you go do yours or come off his page! Obviously people in abroad don't get access to all the exact ingredients you all get in Africa! Give him a break and go sit down. People cook differently. I love this video, keep it up sir and ignore the haters. Who cares what y'all think
If I cooked rice in a tomato sauce, does that my it rice and stew or jollof rice?? Yes, pple cook things differently, does not mean you get the same outcome. Jst saying!!
Hello Mr...This is amazing! What I love most about this is the down-to-earth nature about your cooking, a kitchen thats not propped up,the enthusiastic attitude, reflecting everything good about Nigerian Cuisine.Keep up the good work & Thanks for making me look like a cooking superstar for my family.
people need to understand that just because you cook your food a certain way doesn't mean everyone else cooks it that very same way. everyone has a different way of making food. i was grossed out by the comments of people saying his cooking is wrong. in the end people it's food. and it looks good and im pretty sure it is.
sincerely Sir, u r the best cook,have ever seen,you r so gifted, i wish you can cook for my wedding, your wife is luck,to have a talented and special person like you.kudos sir,kip it up
I am learning a lot. I made my husband, who is Nigerian, banga soup from watching your other video. I am making egusi soup using your video now. Thanks for the videos!
u no y I love ur videos? its bcos, u always go straight to d point, talkless nd u cook very best, great job well done. u prove Nigeria food, dat it's very best for consumption nd healthy food.
Oh and the afang is always the last to go into the pot cos it gets cooked immediately. I u want it to be super fresh n green. But well done bro @Nigeriacuisine. Ur love for cooking n d courage to share it is amazing. Great job
Kitty_93 from Germany... Cant forget that name... heehehehhehehe. Thanks for your kind words and enjoying my videos. Really grateful. Please stay connected.
Bro keep up the great job, I am a Gambian but truly fall in love with your cooking, after watching your video , I can't stay in the house, I have to go shopping to cook some of this Mama African dish, you are the best keep it going champ👑
Thumbs up for my brother👍! For a yoruba man to go this far abeg you try well well. Your explanations were thorough,very simple n easy to follow, no big grammar at all.
Am going to shop for all these ingredients you are using but it seems like you get some directly from Nigeria. I will use your videos to learn how to make west African food. Thank you. Am from Southern Africa but love this type of food.
good job man for trying. I'm not trying to criticized or pick on your cooking because a man who delights so much in cooking to the extend of summoning courage to make a cooking video is very attractive to me.you did a fantastic job, but Just a little correction, the afang is put last after the water leaf or baby spinach. Once again, Bravo!
Newbee here, I just stumbled across your videos and now am hooked. I live in Switzerland and o boy my taste buds just awakened, in other words am salivating, where in the hoot do you get ur ingredients from. I really like ur passion for food. Went to your site, sent you a message hope I get a reply.
pls sorry i really enjoy watching ur video,but dis is not hw we are making Afang soup,we don't put curry and some spices dat u put and u must make sure dat u water/leave in Afang soup but u don't sorry pls is not Afang am frm Akwa Ibom
I like the video. Thnx 4 sharing. Just one quick question and it has nothing to do with the vegetable stew; how did u manage to roll the eba like that?
Thanks for your great comment. Very appreciated. For the Eba, This is how ...Scoop a ball shaped Eba into a long clear film wrap (spreading out) without cutting it at the end. Roll over the clear film on it ( Film must spread out) and press down gentle with your palm. Then, use a roller pin over the film to flatten it. Remove clear film from one sides and cut Eba edges with knife to give you a rectangular shape. Roll like a mat and place on the plate while still hot or warm.
A friend made this soup and I absolutely loved it... Lol I guess Nigerians love meat, because there is an abundance of meat in this soup, just like the one I tried.. Now if I choose to do less meat and I have more stock left over it's still going to be good right? I love meat, but I like sauce to go with whatever I'm eating
Pls, I would like to know if this soup could be eaten with rice??? By the way it looks really good. I'm heading to the market right now and I'll be cooking it today. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Tolulope Fasusi.. Thanks for watching the video. Yes! You can enjoy it with rice or any staple food. I hope you enjoy making this lovely dish. Please keep me posted.
In cameroon we call this eru..and we don't use spinach but water leaf..and we don't put onions..and we don't pound the okazi cause the soup will be bitter..but u did it well thumb up fr u
ok so i have watched majority of your videos the last couple days. My question is who helps you eat all these foods? You throws it down!!.. Are u located in the states?
Hello brother, is the Okazi the same as bitter leaf? I am a baby when it comes to African cooking, & have much to learn! That pepper had me sweating, & I am only looking at it through the screen, lol!
+Maty Dembele it's a kind of vegetable leaves, thick and tasteful when used in cooking okazi soup and edinkang ikong soup. it's commonly used by southern /eastern part of Nigeria.
Why I'm torturing myself 12.32 at night I don't know! Never had any form of African style cooking but oh how I love to watch. Hope one day I have the opportunity to try.
maureen ugwa yes you are right , I love his cooking but Tyne is out of afang soup , am from Calabar and when it comes to cooking afang and Edikan ikong soup we know it
Scotch bonnet peppers are very hot. Are your children able to eat this soup with the peppers or do you prepare something else for them. Just curious.......
Nigerian kids grow up eating very hot peppers. I started my son on foods with scotch bonnets when he was 9months old, but I've had friends and relatives start at 6 months! What's more, their kids thrived. Which probably explains why I don't feel the heat in many so-called 'hot' American dishes.
Linda Brown .. Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately , I dont have children I cook for using scotch bonnet, but sure they will like it if I do. Not as chilli as you think
PLEASE PLEASE HELP! I am 12 weeks pregnant and only craving fufu and spinach sauce(Afang soup). I always purchase my dishes from a wonderful Nigerian restaurant near me...it's getting pricey too lol. Here's my problem, I am a vegetarian and so I get the spinach sauce with the fufu. Can you please make this dish without the meat?
I dont understand why pple are upset when the natives of the place (Cross River and Akwa Ibom) where the soup comes from say that this is not how to make the soup. Its like tell a neurosurgeon he knows nothing abt the brain or cardiologist he knows nothing abt the heart. Logic pple...logic!!!! I understand he put all the seasonings to flavor the meat but the waterleaf or spinach shd be more for the water content becos afang is not a dry soup. More palm oil becos afang is an oily soup and the oil helps cook the afang leaves or else it will remain tough. Jst my 2cents!!!
I know him ... I know "SAKA" .. He sells pepper in Yaba . What has he done again because I can hear you call " saka - tata- yaba.. meaning SAKA is selling PEPPER in YABA. May God help SAKA ooooo ........ Lol
so many Nigerian dishes have assorted meats. I wonder if the dishes would be more palatable to foreigners if it was made with only one type of meat. For instance afang with lamb. Edikang okong(?) with ponmo, and another with shaki, another with turkey, so on and so on. I dont think it is necessary to continue the assorted meat thing in countries where meat is abundant. Just make a great pairing with the meat type and the veggies, leaves or seeds.
Pls tick to your local delicacies. This is all wrong. We Calabarians don't cook our traditional meals with onions, thyme and curry - Efere Afang is one of them.
Looks good and sure it will taste good too but all these meat for just one pot of soup? This is just not fair, how do I afford this cooking when I have hungry roomies leaving with me!!!
honestly i like most of ur cooking but i wonder why u like too many spices for one meal. traditional afang does not need thyme leaves but i guess thats ur own method i only can imagine what taste the thyme would produce. Also dear brother pls stop the too many 'thanks for watching' it now excessively in all your videos lol. I must say i love ur style and passion for cooking and ur pot ( of food) are always expensive bro. hehehehe i can tell u so like 'assorted'. Good job .... thumbs up
my critics are why are all african using the cubes ...do we know where they coming from .....please use ur own heritage spices to inhance flavours.....but i still love Nigerian cooking , and all that ingrident ...except the stock cubes
Another thing,omit onions! We don't use onions in our soups, it's an abomination! We use it in stews,pepper soup or for seasoning our meat, but never directly or as an ingredient in Afang or any Efik soup! PEACE!
please those insulting should stop besides make your own if you think he is not doing it well nd stop watching his nd saying a lot of terrible things.you are hurting his feelings.not fair
Well done! But please call the ingredients by the name that the originators call it! We don't call the leaf 'okazi' but 'afang'. If you were cooking 'okazi' soup,an Igbo soup no problem,but since you are cooking 'afang' an Efik soup,it's best to give dues to the Efiks by calling the ingredients by the local name! PEACE!
vixxy02 pls do read before u comment. It's gonna do u a lot of benefits. I was on ur side only for u to tag ur auntie bitch n not me. Pls don't come n display ur "ratchetness" on social media
This so wrong. Though I'm sure it'll taste good but this is not afang soup. Just another veggie soup with afang leaves in it. But u can cook. Thumbs up
O Abasi mi mbok, this is not Afang soup. There is no thyme seasoning in Afang soup. Afang soup with spinach taste horrible. The ratio of Afang leave to water leaf is very important for your Afang soup to taste good. Afang soup shouldn't be this dry either.
Most of us Nigerians learnt to cook by watching our mothers, grandmothers, aunties...etc. I often find it difficult to give recipes to people as we were not taught to cook with exact measurements :) So what I really like about your cooking style is that you include measurements, which would make it easy for non-Nigerians to follow. Regardless of the critiques below from the Calabars I still think YOUR TWIST on this dish will taste wonderful. Keep doing what you love. God bless!
All these people saying he did it wrong why don't you go do yours or come off his page! Obviously people in abroad don't get access to all the exact ingredients you all get in Africa! Give him a break and go sit down. People cook differently. I love this video, keep it up sir and ignore the haters. Who cares what y'all think
jenkinsonj05 I tire o
If I cooked rice in a tomato sauce, does that my it rice and stew or jollof rice?? Yes, pple cook things differently, does not mean you get the same outcome. Jst saying!!
ive never seen a guy cook like this amazing the woman who gets or has u is extremely blessed
Tia maria.. Thanks for your comment.
Those of you over sabi, why are you watching the video since are perfect. You nailed it my brother. keep doing your good job
Hello Mr...This is amazing! What I love most about this is the down-to-earth nature about your cooking, a kitchen thats not propped up,the enthusiastic attitude, reflecting everything good about Nigerian Cuisine.Keep up the good work & Thanks for making me look like a cooking superstar for my family.
Another lovely video!! I don't think I ever get tired of watching you cook!! Welldone
Ohhhhh! Felicity Osuji .. Thanks for your wonderful comment and support.
i had always loved leave dishes, cant wait to try dis, fanks for sharing,.
people need to understand that just because you cook your food a certain way doesn't mean everyone else cooks it that very same way. everyone has a different way of making food. i was grossed out by the comments of people saying his cooking is wrong. in the end people it's food. and it looks good and im pretty sure it is.
sincerely Sir, u r the best cook,have ever seen,you r so gifted, i wish you can cook for my wedding, your wife is luck,to have a talented and special person like you.kudos sir,kip it up
I am learning a lot. I made my husband, who is Nigerian, banga soup from watching your other video. I am making egusi soup using your video now. Thanks for the videos!
u no y I love ur videos? its bcos, u always go straight to d point, talkless nd u cook very best, great job well done. u prove Nigeria food, dat it's very best for consumption nd healthy food.
I am enjoying watching you cook. yummy food
i like the way you cook and i discover some jamaican spice in your cooking yeah mam continue cooking
Oh and the afang is always the last to go into the pot cos it gets cooked immediately. I u want it to be super fresh n green. But well done bro @Nigeriacuisine. Ur love for cooking n d courage to share it is amazing. Great job
Wow I really love ur cooks
its awesome kip t up oh
Nice video again. I enjoy watching your videos because you are a very lovely person so i always get happy. Thumb up :) & greets from germany.
Kitty_93 from Germany... Cant forget that name... heehehehhehehe. Thanks for your kind words and enjoying my videos. Really grateful. Please stay connected.
Bro keep up the great job, I am a Gambian but truly fall in love with your cooking, after watching your video , I can't stay in the house, I have to go shopping to cook some of this Mama African dish, you are the best keep it going champ👑
Wow thank you for showing me this
You the best so far
I really like ur cooking and the way u explain ,not too,much talk talk.some women don't cook like u,i love that ur vegetables soup,.
Is amazing to me that a man derives so much joy in cooking. Well done Bro...great gain to your woman lol
i like your cooking...i wish i can taste it so delicious
This looks amazing.... When I find the leave then I will make it, thank you for your thorough explanation
omg! that's fantastic! thanks so much. I'll try it.🙌
Thumbs up for my brother👍! For a yoruba man to go this far abeg you try well well. Your explanations were thorough,very simple n easy to follow, no big grammar at all.
You are a great cook.
I will try this very soon it will be my first dish
Come o! you have a knack for getting our native delicacies. Where did you get abodi from?
How do you eat fufu with stew tho? I’m confused please...
clearly there are variations for the same soup. I am going to try this version, thank you!
I loved this recipe thanks so much
Thank you so much for your videos!!!!!
Rali Adeyemi... Thanks for your comment. Please stay connected.
very nice cooker 👍
hi i have a short question ,from what plant is this okazi leaves ?
😍😍😍 so hungry now
Am going to shop for all these ingredients you are using but it seems like you get some directly from Nigeria. I will use your videos to learn how to make west African food. Thank you. Am from Southern Africa but love this type of food.
Wow...we dont use thyme to cook meat meant for Soup.
nice cooking
I just want to know if it’s spicy? Is that checkin that you add wit
good job man for trying. I'm not trying to criticized or pick on your cooking because a man who delights so much in cooking to the extend of summoning courage to make a cooking video is very attractive to me.you did a fantastic job, but Just a little correction, the afang is put last after the water leaf or baby spinach. Once again, Bravo!
Blessing Okpo
Blessing Okpo I like your mature criticism 👍. Unlike some b***h**
Wot other veg. can one use with okazi in cooking Afan soup?
Are you in the UK? Where do you get your dry Okazi leaves please? thanks
Appétissant!!!!!!
Good job
Newbee here, I just stumbled across your videos and now am hooked. I live in Switzerland and o boy my taste buds just awakened, in other words am salivating, where in the hoot do you get ur ingredients from. I really like ur passion for food. Went to your site, sent you a message hope I get a reply.
pls sorry i really enjoy watching ur video,but dis is not hw we are making Afang soup,we don't put curry and some spices dat u put and u must make sure dat u water/leave in Afang soup but u don't sorry pls is not Afang am frm Akwa Ibom
you are amazing
I like the video. Thnx 4 sharing. Just one quick question and it has nothing to do with the vegetable stew; how did u manage to roll the eba like that?
Thanks for your great comment. Very appreciated. For the Eba, This is how ...Scoop a ball shaped Eba into a long clear film wrap (spreading out) without cutting it at the end. Roll over the clear film on it ( Film must spread out) and press down gentle with your palm. Then, use a roller pin over the film to flatten it. Remove clear film from one sides and cut Eba edges with knife to give you a rectangular shape. Roll like a mat and place on the plate while still hot or warm.
Ok. Thnx v much for your time.
You did well, but you have to be open to criticisms in order to improve no matter how unmannered some may present theirs. Love this
This some hardcore food. It takes as long to make Haitian food I can tell you that much.
Great tips!! One problem I have though is knowing at what temperature to cook the food. It does not say in the video
A friend made this soup and I absolutely loved it... Lol I guess Nigerians love meat, because there is an abundance of meat in this soup, just like the one I tried.. Now if I choose to do less meat and I have more stock left over it's still going to be good right? I love meat, but I like sauce to go with whatever I'm eating
Pls, I would like to know if this soup could be eaten with rice??? By the way it looks really good. I'm heading to the market right now and I'll be cooking it today. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Tolulope Fasusi.. Thanks for watching the video. Yes! You can enjoy it with rice or any staple food. I hope you enjoy making this lovely dish. Please keep me posted.
Excellent
Lol,hmmmm ,u really cook good if u are married den yr wife is lucky.keep it up
In cameroon we call this eru..and we don't use spinach but water leaf..and we don't put onions..and we don't pound the okazi cause the soup will be bitter..but u did it well thumb up fr u
Thank you mate, cooking it at the moment but with beef only.Hope it turns out alright.I'll call it beefang..Cheers
Can i know the english name of 'orchadi'? That green thing
I need this pot so bad where can I buy this pressure cooker at ?
gush am hungry for this
welldone
ok so i have watched majority of your videos the last couple days. My question is who helps you eat all these foods? You throws it down!!.. Are u located in the states?
This is torture ooo bro. I need to make some afghan soup today o
can you come here to new zealand so i can taste your one
please the Calabar I come from,we don't put onion in afang or time.
Share your recipe then.
Evelyn Inah we don hear you. Park well.
Evelyn Inah Same here
Hello brother, is the Okazi the same as bitter leaf? I am a baby when it comes to African cooking, & have much to learn! That pepper had me sweating, & I am only looking at it through the screen, lol!
No it's not okazi leaves are thicker in texture while bitter leaves are bitter and thinner in texture.
thanks bro.
please i live in florida i don't know where to find the okazi is there any other vegetable i can use apart from okazi?
Did you check out an African foods store?
u need a bigger pressure cooker
nice cooling
yummy
hey...what is okazi???
+Maty Dembele it's a kind of vegetable leaves, thick and tasteful when used in cooking okazi soup and edinkang ikong soup. it's commonly used by southern /eastern part of Nigeria.
It's botanical name is Gnetum africanum. It's found is tropical Africa. The igbo tribe in Nigeria call it okazi. The efik/ibibio call it afang leaves
Why I'm torturing myself 12.32 at night I don't know! Never had any form of African style cooking but oh how I love to watch. Hope one day I have the opportunity to try.
Good video but I could have used the list of ingredients in your comments.
Soup is too dry for my taste, too much meat and using thyme as seasoning for a local soup is a no-no for me.
maureen ugwa it is just a pot of meat with few veggies but i guess thats how he likes it
maureen ugwa I concur
maureen ugwa yes you are right , I love his cooking but Tyne is out of afang soup , am from Calabar and when it comes to cooking afang and Edikan ikong soup we know it
It’s true, it’s like a taboo to use thyme in soup, it’s also like adding curry to soup, a no no.
How tf is soup dry
Thank
Scotch bonnet peppers are very hot. Are your children able to eat this soup with the peppers or do you prepare something else for them. Just curious.......
Nigerian kids grow up eating very hot peppers. I started my son on foods with scotch bonnets when he was 9months old, but I've had friends and relatives start at 6 months! What's more, their kids thrived. Which probably explains why I don't feel the heat in many so-called 'hot' American dishes.
Linda Brown .. Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately , I dont have children I cook for using scotch bonnet, but sure they will like it if I do. Not as chilli as you think
I give you 3 gboser,you are too much GOD bless ur mom
I love my pressure cooker it has a safety button on it I have an imusa
PLEASE PLEASE HELP! I am 12 weeks pregnant and only craving fufu and spinach sauce(Afang soup). I always purchase my dishes from a wonderful Nigerian restaurant near me...it's getting pricey too lol. Here's my problem, I am a vegetarian and so I get the spinach sauce with the fufu. Can you please make this dish without the meat?
lol, very very funny. A calabar soup without meat will be super hilarious to watch o!!!
Well guess what? It was done! It was very tasty too! Be mindful of who you reply to. Anything can be created when you put you're mind to it.
I dont understand why pple are upset when the natives of the place (Cross River and Akwa Ibom) where the soup comes from say that this is not how to make the soup. Its like tell a neurosurgeon he knows nothing abt the brain or cardiologist he knows nothing abt the heart. Logic pple...logic!!!! I understand he put all the seasonings to flavor the meat but the waterleaf or spinach shd be more for the water content becos afang is not a dry soup. More palm oil becos afang is an oily soup and the oil helps cook the afang leaves or else it will remain tough. Jst my 2cents!!!
"Sakatatayaba! Eli-Jah, Eli-Jah!" Interpret if you can!...I conjure this soup across the sea into my kitchen...lol. Amazing job. "Saka, saka, saka!
I know him ... I know "SAKA" .. He sells pepper in Yaba . What has he done again because I can hear you call " saka - tata- yaba.. meaning SAKA is selling PEPPER in YABA. May God help SAKA ooooo ........ Lol
Lol
You are funny....Thanks for your wonderful comment and watching my video.
Nigeriacuisine thats hilariuos......... good comedy lol
Pls ur link to ur facebook page.
Thanks Ololade Kafilar.... Here is it....facebook.com/pages/Nigeria-Cuisine/746540022026264
so many Nigerian dishes have assorted meats. I wonder if the dishes would be more palatable to foreigners if it was made with only one type of meat. For instance afang with lamb. Edikang okong(?) with ponmo, and another with shaki, another with turkey, so on and so on. I dont think it is necessary to continue the assorted meat thing in countries where meat is abundant. Just make a great pairing with the meat type and the veggies, leaves or seeds.
Pls tick to your local delicacies. This is all wrong. We Calabarians don't cook our traditional meals with onions, thyme and curry - Efere Afang is one of them.
Hilda Iinyang shut up there. You have said in his other video before. What else do you want aunty agbaya?
Oshey Hilda the calabarian, show us how to make it. Oniranu
Looks good and sure it will taste good too but all these meat for just one pot of soup? This is just not fair, how do I afford this cooking when I have hungry roomies leaving with me!!!
honestly i like most of ur cooking but i wonder why u like too many spices for one meal. traditional afang does not need thyme leaves but i guess thats ur own method i only can imagine what taste the thyme would produce. Also dear brother pls stop the too many 'thanks for watching' it now excessively in all your videos lol. I must say i love ur style and passion for cooking and ur pot ( of food) are always expensive bro. hehehehe i can tell u so like 'assorted'. Good job .... thumbs up
Mnnnnn Yawmmy!
my critics are why are all african using the cubes ...do we know where they coming from .....please use ur own heritage spices to inhance flavours.....but i still love Nigerian cooking , and all that ingrident ...except the stock cubes
My favourite soup to go chef kolawole doing a good work subscribe guys
Nooooooooooo.... Nigeriacuisine I enjoy some of your cooking videos, but trust me, you didn't get this one right dear.
calabar person e dey
Another thing,omit onions! We don't use onions in our soups, it's an abomination! We use it in stews,pepper soup or for seasoning our meat, but never directly or as an ingredient in Afang or any Efik soup!
PEACE!
Thanks
Eileen Daps I guess you're right, abomination DOES sound kind of strong!😘😘
maybe y'all don't have access to onions or can't afford then. He can afford onions!
maybe y'all don't have access to onions or can't afford then. He can afford onions!
please those insulting should stop besides make your own if you think he is not doing it well nd stop watching his nd saying a lot of terrible things.you are hurting his feelings.not fair
Well done! But please call the ingredients by the name that the originators call it! We don't call the leaf 'okazi' but 'afang'. If you were cooking 'okazi' soup,an Igbo soup no problem,but since you are cooking 'afang' an Efik soup,it's best to give dues to the Efiks by calling the ingredients by the local name!
PEACE!
Thanks
We've seen u. Jump n pass jare, my inlaw puts onion. Wch kind abomination? Taboo ni
Yemisi Amoo So rude that the owner of the video said "Thanks"! Abeg commot Jo! Busybody!
vixxy02 I didn't bother to reply him sef.......comment made since May. He just got a smart device or internet access to reply. Lol
vixxy02 pls do read before u comment. It's gonna do u a lot of benefits. I was on ur side only for u to tag ur auntie bitch n not me. Pls don't come n display ur "ratchetness" on social media
pls Mr chef don't abuse our soup, we didn't put curry, thyme for the soup or putting afang before waterleaf pls
OMG look at all that helping of soup in one plate 😢
Buddy there is no onions, thyme in afang. Where is the grounded crayfish? Efiks do not eat cow foot. Good video though
Afang is always added LAST.
Thanks
Why are you negative?! Do you have a video?! If you can do better do a video kmt
Punkie Sibz 😴😴😴😴😴
so funny Mr chef, don't disgrace my tradition pls
Sharrap please
Nse Peter you are right , that is not how we cook afang soup
This so wrong. Though I'm sure it'll taste good but this is not afang soup. Just another veggie soup with afang leaves in it. But u can cook. Thumbs up
you are a classic hater! Who died and made you the afang police?
O Abasi mi mbok, this is not Afang soup. There is no thyme seasoning in Afang soup. Afang soup with spinach taste horrible. The ratio of Afang leave to water leaf is very important for your Afang soup to taste good. Afang soup shouldn't be this dry either.
Mama Africa thanks my dear , we the Efik we know it well when it comes to cooking