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🇨🇲Cameroon

Banga Soup

Banga

Palm fruit pulp boiled and sieved into a red, oily broth spiced with beletientien and other Delta herbs, cooked with catfish or beef.

🇳🇪Niger

Bean Soup

Miyan Wake

A simple, filling Nigerien soup of cowpeas or black-eyed peas cooked in palm oil with onion, tomato, pepper, and dried fish or meat; a humble, protein-rich stew served with tuwo.

🇳🇪Niger

Dried Okra Soup

Miyan Kubewa

A thick, fragrant Nigerien okra soup made with dried okra pods, beef, dried fish, vegetable oil, onion, pepper, ginger, and dawa dawa; darker and richer than fresh okra soups, with a deep, savoury flavour.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Egusi Soup

Egusi

Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with pepper, leafy greens and assorted meat or fish until the seed sets into soft lumps in the oil.

🇬🇭Ghana

Groundnut Soup

Nkatenkwan

Peanut paste cooked out with tomato, onion, ginger and chilli into a thick soup with chicken, goat or dried fish.

🇳🇪Niger

Groundnut Soup

Miyan Geda

A creamy Nigerien soup of roasted groundnut paste, meat, dried fish, tomato, onion, and leafy greens; thick, nutty, and slightly sweet, it is a staple sauce for tuwo shinkafa and tuwo masara.

🇳🇪Niger

Jute Mallow Soup

Miyan Ayoyo

A soft, mucilaginous soup of jute mallow leaves (ayoyo) cooked with meat, groundnut or palm oil, tomato, onion, and spices; smooth and slightly sticky, served with tuwo in Hausa areas of Niger.

🇳🇪Niger

Miyan Geda

Northern Nigerian groundnut soup cooked with aromatics and meat or fish.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Miyan Kuka

Powdered baobab leaf cooked into a dark, slippery northern soup with dried meat, dawadawa and pepper.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Miyan Taushe

Pumpkin cooked down with groundnut paste, spinach and meat into a thick orange northern soup, mildly sweet.

🇳🇪Niger

Moringa Soup

Miyan Zogale

A nutritious Nigerien soup of fresh moringa leaves simmered with groundnut paste, meat or dried fish, tomato, onion, and dawa dawa; dark green, slightly thick, and highly valued for vitamins and minerals.

🇳🇪Niger

Sesame Leaf Soup

Miyan Karkashi

A silky, mucilaginous Nigerien draw soup made from sesame leaves (karkashi), simmered with dried fish, potash, and ground crayfish; slightly green and sticky, served with tuwo dawa or masara.