Greetings great steemians
I welcome you all to this week writing challenge and today I will be writing on how to prepare the African salad (abacha).

introduction

In this article of mine I will be showing/writing the steps involved in preparing the delicious African salad (abacha) but before I proceed I will like you to know what Abacha is.

Abacha: this is a cassava based dish in form of a salad from the Eastern part of Nigeria (Igbo). It helps human to prevent and treat heart diseases, obesity,microbial infections etc and this has been proved scientifically.

Before you start preparing your abacha you will have to keep your cassava ready. Your cassava can be kept ready for abacha using the following steps:

1. You have to harvest your cassava tuber,pill and wash thoroughly.
2. After that you have to cut your cassava tuber into smaller sizes.
3. cook it until becomes soft for consumption then shred it
4. After that you will have to dry it

_{a shredded and dried cassava tuber}

processes involved

The following ingredients are needed to prepare your salad:

• ngor or potash
• dried and shredded cassava
• onion
• Fresh pepper
• Garden egg and it's leaf
• Maggi
• Fish
• Meat
• Palm oil

step 1

Soak the dried and shredded cassava tuber in cold/hot water while/before mixing your ingredients

step 2

Add your palm oil and ngor in another bowl and mix. After that add your onion, maggi, crayfish etc inside the ngor and palm oil solution and mix thoroughly

step 3

Remove the shredded and dried cassava tuber from water and pour in the solution and turn it,then you add your cooked fish to it.
Turn it thoroughly with your spoon or spatula so the so the solution can mix together with the shredded and dried cassava.

After that your African salad is ready,dish it in a plate and add your fresh pepper, cooked meat, garden egg and it's leaf and serve it

This are the processes involved in making your delicious and healthy African salad(abacha).
I hope you have learnt how to prepare your Abacha
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