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🍲 Miyan Karkashi (Nigerian Sesame Leaf Soup)

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Miyan karkashi is a Nigerian draw soup made from karkashi (sesame leaf). It is often consumed in northern Nigeria, where it is typically served with varieties of tuwo such as tuwo shinkafa and tuwo masara.

10-20 minutes2-32
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Ingredients

  • ½ cup karkashi leaves, either fresh or dried and ground
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon fermented locust beans (iru)
  • ¼ pound fish
  • 0.25 kg meat
  • ½ teaspoon potash
  • 1 seasoning cube

Method

  1. Grind the karkashi leaves to a paste.
  2. Bring the water to boil in a pot, and stir in the fermented locust beans.
  3. Add the fish and meat, and cook for 5–7 minutes.
  4. Add the karkashi leaf paste along with the potash. Stir, and cook for 5 minutes.
  5. Stir in the seasoning cube. Continue stirring with a whisk for 3 minutes until the mixture is smooth.
  6. Serve the soup with tuwo masara, tuwo dawa, tuwo alkama, or tuwo shinkafa.
Where this came from. Adapted from Miyan Karkashi (Nigerian Sesame Leaf Soup) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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