Hi Flo. You are a officially a Professor. I hereby confer you with the Doctorate Degree in Culinary Science. I hope you accept it. Thank you for this video. It is indeed a life saving hack for us in diaspora. Your kitchen is the best Laboratory ever. I am interested in the Almond egwusi soup. I know we eat pumpkin seeds as snacks too but i am not sure about making soup with it. Always looking forward to your videos! Thank you Flo.
Na wa ooo but that person that gave this video a thumb down shaa, hmm odikwa egwu! It pains me so so much to see videos like this being given thumb down! A well detailed and entertaining video like this, somebody will come from no where and give it a thumb down? Tufiakwa!😢
You know that some people just have to knock down something good just for the sake of it. Someone went through the pain of sharing ideas she found and also gave the caveat that sone people might not like some of them. But some people must click that thumbs down botton shaaa!!!!
Jessica you have to understand that there are haters everywhere. I am sure the person don't know what it takes to make a video hence they will come here and give it a thumbs down. One thing is for sure you and Flo have your favorite viewer and you will always get my love and support. Just a reminder haters are not allowed on this page!
Thanks for sharing Aunty flo. Collard greens is a great alternative to ugwu leave, here in the U.S. It has ugwu texture, although it’s has a very broad leave. Remove the big stalk in the middle of the leave, chop and cook with any swallow soup.
Thanks for these amazing hacks. I discovered mashed ripe avocado with added drops of lime juice as a perfect alternative to ube eji ata ọka (local pear that we eat with roasted corn). It works so well.
Wow, i am so thrilled. I don't know how u get ideas but one things i know is you are blessed. You have this in your hands and the heavens is your limit. God bless u ma. As always. SAVING MARRIAGES
Thank you Iphy. I guess I am the only one that has not jumped on the kale bandwagon. I will try it. I heard about lentils for Moi Moi and Akara especially red lentils but I have not tried it. Daalu.
Wooow. Just when I was looking for how to go in search of coco yam flour from afro shop. I didn't know my ever handy oat will do the magic. Am so trying this today as soon as possible. God bless you for this!
I like your videos cos they are very inspiring. What I found out is that 1. Kale is a very good alternative for ugwu leaves but you need slice it like ugwu, wash with some salt and allow it to cook well cos it has a strong taste if it does not cook well. Swiss Chard is also good for efo riro, tastes better than kale. 2. To get the best taste and colour for that green pumpkin seeds, I'd advise you fry it a little bit before grinding it. I can assure you that the colour and taste is the same cos pepper and palm oil have mixed well with the pumpkin seeds. Thumbs up for your great job!
Thanks Flo, yes I agree with your substitutes but I have some alternatives. I use the cornflour you use for akamu also as a thicker for soups like bitter leaf and oha etc instead of oats. Just mix with a little cold water and add to the boiling soup my rating 8/10. Then I also use tinned butter beans as a substitute to cooked ukwa. I just add the usual ukwa ingredients (pepper, dry fish etc) to the mashed butter beans and enjoy. My rating for that is 7/10. I also use Irish potatoes to make yam porridge when I have no yam available it is a bit softer but my kids prefer it. We in diaspora just have to make do with what we have available. That is how new recipes are adopted/invented. The main thing is to keep our Nigerian recipes alive!
Ehe? Corn Flour as cocoyam? When I add it to sauces, it gives it a sort of sweet taste. Because of that 8/10 you gave it, I will try it with bitterleaf soup one day and hopefully confess. The butter beans hack is awesome. Even our ordinary beans (peeled) and cooked with dry fish and other ukwa ingredients tastes like ukwa. Yes o, we need to manage whatever we have where we live just to get even 10% of motherland taste. Thanks for the alternatives you shared.
Hi Flo, the tiny sesame seeds are called ridi (pronounced 'reedee') in many Plateau dialects or esa (pronounced eh sah) in Agila dialect in Benue state. Esa resembles egusi when ground and made into soup but does not cake as much. It also has a mildly bitter taste so i would not pair it with bitter leaf. My mum in law makes the perfect Esa soup. As an alternative to Egusi I will give it a 6 over 10.
Thank you for such great video. When I run out of poundo flour, to get the texture of poundo I add a couple of tablespoons of potato flour to semolina.
Spinach is an alternative for garden egg leaf(akwukwo anara) for me.I always use when preparing my abacha. Thanks so much. I always enjoy your cooking recipes.
A wonderful video, I must say. Very enlightening👍. I do not like egusi, so I'm definitely gonna be trying out the alternatives. I was quite surprised when you said your alternative for ugwu and green is spinach, cos spinach is actually my substitute for waterleaf. I use it with kale for making vegetable soup, so yummy (I kinda prefer it to the real thing). I also combine it with okazi to make afang soup😋. In fact, I give spinach as waterleaf alternative a 10/10.
Omg thank you so much for the alternatives. I use quaker oat and I like it. You mentioned almond as egwusi alternative. Am waiting for the video. Almond is my favorite nut. Am learning a lot from your vlog. Keep up the good work. Your the best.
It's just like you know what's going on in my head mainly in that nkwobi part like I've been looking for what or how it's gonna get thick and and looking for what to use as substitute for palm oil then you just came through with the video ! Thank you so much ma ❤
May your days be long for us Flo🙏🏼 . This your ministry is indeed a life saving one. Whoever that gave this video a thumbs down,, hmmm, I don’t know what to tell you. Because it could be that you don’t understand what we go through up here.
Wow God bless you ma.. Where I live they have sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, I ve tried pumpkin seeds many times but I don’t like the taste but recently I washed it 4 times and I ground it with a water blender added red bell pepper and tomatoes nd onion to it and it taste just like egussi seed. I will try the sunflower seeds nd almonds next time . Nd yes I almost forgot to like the video until you said what are u waiting for , i then quickly hit the like button 🤣🤣 very funny
Thank you. :) LOL @ washing it 4 times. Did that wash off the black colour? I was disappointed when I saw the black colour because lots of people recommended it. I am glad you found a way around it.
Nice video, I never knew about baking soda and hot water as an alternative for potash. For the pumpkin seeds, I grind in the blender into a puree, once ground the color is not dark like that. Try it, I prefer the taste of pumpkin seeds than sunflower. Almond is a new one, thanks for all the tips! See you next timeeeeee....😄
i agree. I made pumpkin seed "egos" yesterday and sunflower see "egos" today. I think the pumpkin see egos has a better flavor profile. Although i used less orisiris (smoke turkey/fish) for the sunflower soup today. Also the color does not show after the soup is done
The akanu/ potash alternative is amazing!!! The eel is cool .. cauz here in Eastern Europe it's too expensive for me! Plus it's even rare! Aunty Flo! Thank you so much ❤❤
Hello @Flo Chinyere, lovely video. For my little contribution....Kale is another alternative to Nigeria green/ ugu. It has a very very close texture to Nigeria green. Spinach is rather a closer match to Nigeria garden egg leaves (akwukwo añara in Igbo). You can eat spinach raw too and both have same taste and texture.
Great value as usual. The second tip ( tomato in oil) is totally old school. It was the first thing my mom came up with as she’d had to improvise for A LOT of foods in the early ‘70s USA. I’m looking for alternatives to catfish since going kosher. I must eschew fish that doesn’t have both fins and scales. So I can still enjoy mackerel ( titus for my Nigerian peeps🇳🇬), tuna and tilapia for example. But since catfish lacks scales, I’ve had to call it quits on my “point and kill” until further notice 😭. Same with the eels, fins but no scales=no go. Any ideas, cousins???
I like the baking soda part. I think I will try it. The oat powder in soups is very true. Even back in Nigeria, my mum stopped using cocoyam many years ago to reduce starch content in soups. I too have been using it for years for all soups that need thickening.
God bless you ma for sharing. Getting the ingredients here in China is a whole story and when you find people who sell, the price is just unbelievable. I’ve tried the corn flour pap and it was on point👍🏾👍🏾. I’m more excited to try the sesame seeds and oatmeal alternatives😋😋
Wow! Thank you very much for taking the time to do your research and for bringing your findings to us. This is a wealth of knowledge. I am sure I will try some of these alternatives or share them with others. God bless you.
I love this video! Thank you so much! I didn't know about quaker oats in bitterleaf soup. I'll give it a try. I love almonds, so I'll like to try it in egusi soup, and see how it turns out. I usually use baby spinach in place of water leaf, and I use kale or mature spinach leaves in place of ugu leaves.
Thanks for this video it is an eye opener especially the palm oil alternative. Suggestion, why don't you try kale as alternative to ugwu it's so good and have similar texture, I haven't bought ugwu since I discovered it. We have cat fish in the UK though frozen but I enjoy using it a lot
You are the queen of all Nigerian recipes! Thanks for sharing!!! I have used oats for years, and many other alternative u have here but i find Curly Kale as a good alternative for ugu and its great anti oxidant too so i use that a lot in my soups! Its found in local shops in Scotland where i live, please try it and lets know ur score for it?
Hey Flo! So I found out what Jamicans call callaloo leaves is actually greens in Nigeria! And some Asian markets have a variety of Naija ingredients too!
Another gem video from my fav Naija food 🥘 guru. My Naija culinary beast always find a way in keeping Naija food alive no matter where you live in the world. Thanks 🙏🏾 💜🤘🏾
Thanks for this wonderful video, even in Nigeria we use Quaker oats as alternative to cocoyam.I live in Italy they have catfish which is known as il peace gatto.Check all those big store where they sellers fish in wholesale. I buy a carton of catfish for £19
Thanks for this video, I can find some of the indigenous foods online but not all. I remember you mentioning some these alternatives in some of your previous videos.
To make edikikong...I used the combination of spinach and kale. ( more spinach than kale) I found it to work well. Or maybe I was just toooooo home sick 🤷🏽♀️😄
Tolzie O yea thats exactly what i use too. The combination gives me a perfect nigerian vegetable soup alternative. Of course with some dry fish from african shops. Have a nice day.
Thanks for the video, I actually have some of that palm oil saved from when I made the tomato stew from your video, it is so delicious...I can not wait to use it in my okra soup!
Aunty Flo, am really enjoying your videos and learning new things each time. Some of your hacks I had already discovered some time back as a caterer and some are new. I use a food dehydrator overnight to dry my fish when smoked or dried fish is too expensive or the quality of what is available in London is not so good. Have also used it to dry cassava for abacha and the result has been good so far. Keep up the good work, sis. God bless.
Nice substitutes. Glad I know much already cos I am always researching 😁. Tried the pumpkin seeds for egusi and it was good. Tried the almond seeds and it tasted too sweet. Like I added sugar...
Thank u Soo Soo much aunty this was very helpful my alternative to red oil I either use annato seeds fried in vegetable oil or blended in water then fried oil..... I use water cress kale dasheen leaves when making vegetable soup or endingkanko sorryooo I'm I'm still learning what I would like to know is there an alternative to potash as my Mr is from Edo n there is a soup I would like to try but never heard of potash n when I check Google it tells me is fertilizer helpooo
I'm allergic to egusi (agushie to my fellow Ghanaians) but not to pumpkin seeds. Since the plants are all in the cucurbitae family, it does seem like a reasonable substitute! I might try it.
Hi Flo. You are a officially a Professor. I hereby confer you with the Doctorate Degree in Culinary Science. I hope you accept it. Thank you for this video. It is indeed a life saving hack for us in diaspora. Your kitchen is the best Laboratory ever. I am interested in the Almond egwusi soup. I know we eat pumpkin seeds as snacks too but i am not sure about making soup with it. Always looking forward to your videos! Thank you Flo.
Awww Chibuike! All these accolades you are giving me! I happily accept! Daalu ooo! Thanks for always watching and loving.
Chibuike Ulasi Yes oo i agree! The best laboratory ever!😂
Honestly, her own kind of intellect eh, it’s too rare...I hope I am this smart one day
Chibuike Ulasi: I'm so happy she did this video. I've been wanting to prepare Egusi soup but can't find the Egusi seeds/powder.
Yes oh. She is the best
Na wa ooo but that person that gave this video a thumb down shaa, hmm odikwa egwu! It pains me so so much to see videos like this being given thumb down! A well detailed and entertaining video like this, somebody will come from no where and give it a thumb down? Tufiakwa!😢
Fantastic Favour don't mind them... enemies of progress and saddists.
Pls cook Afang soup
You know that some people just have to knock down something good just for the sake of it. Someone went through the pain of sharing ideas she found and also gave the caveat that sone people might not like some of them. But some people must click that thumbs down botton shaaa!!!!
Ifeoma Ezenwa I tire!!
Jessica you have to understand that there are haters everywhere. I am sure the person don't know what it takes to make a video hence they will come here and give it a thumbs down. One thing is for sure you and Flo have your favorite viewer and you will always get my love and support. Just a reminder haters are not allowed on this page!
Thanks for sharing Aunty flo.
Collard greens is a great alternative to ugwu leave, here in the U.S. It has ugwu texture, although it’s has a very broad leave.
Remove the big stalk in the middle of the leave, chop and cook with any swallow soup.
Thanks for these amazing hacks. I discovered mashed ripe avocado with added drops of lime juice as a perfect alternative to ube eji ata ọka (local pear that we eat with roasted corn). It works so well.
Wow, i am so thrilled. I don't know how u get ideas but one things i know is you are blessed. You have this in your hands and the heavens is your limit. God bless u ma. As always. SAVING MARRIAGES
Great video and so helpful.. use kale vegetable as an alternative to ugu leaves, I use lentil seeds(legume) to cook moi moi as alternative to beans
Thank you Iphy. I guess I am the only one that has not jumped on the kale bandwagon. I will try it.
I heard about lentils for Moi Moi and Akara especially red lentils but I have not tried it. Daalu.
Kale is a better alternative for ugwu, while spinach is a good alternative for water leave.
We use pounded yam flour as an alternative to coco yam
I was gonna mention Kale as well. It's a better alternative than spinach
I never knew that Kale is like Ugwu. I will try it when next I go to Walmart.
In US, we have cocoyam in most Publix store.
Wow i can't even express how happy I am to see this alternatives
Wooow. Just when I was looking for how to go in search of coco yam flour from afro shop. I didn't know my ever handy oat will do the magic. Am so trying this today as soon as possible. God bless you for this!
Nobody can ever go hungry with auntie Flo. You really need a lot of awards for all this super amazing tips.
I didn't even bother to read before pressing the like button, much confidence that I will definitely love it, not just like. More wisdom from God
Aww nwanne m. Daalu. :)
I like your videos cos they are very inspiring. What I found out is that 1. Kale is a very good alternative for ugwu leaves but you need slice it like ugwu, wash with some salt and allow it to cook well cos it has a strong taste if it does not cook well. Swiss Chard is also good for efo riro, tastes better than kale. 2. To get the best taste and colour for that green pumpkin seeds, I'd advise you fry it a little bit before grinding it. I can assure you that the colour and taste is the same cos pepper and palm oil have mixed well with the pumpkin seeds. Thumbs up for your great job!
Do you mean that swiss chard is a better ugu alternative?
Thanks Flo, yes I agree with your substitutes but I have some alternatives. I use the cornflour you use for akamu also as a thicker for soups like bitter leaf and oha etc instead of oats. Just mix with a little cold water and add to the boiling soup my rating 8/10. Then I also use tinned butter beans as a substitute to cooked ukwa. I just add the usual ukwa ingredients (pepper, dry fish etc) to the mashed butter beans and enjoy. My rating for that is 7/10. I also use Irish potatoes to make yam porridge when I have no yam available it is a bit softer but my kids prefer it. We in diaspora just have to make do with what we have available. That is how new recipes are adopted/invented. The main thing is to keep our Nigerian recipes alive!
Ehe? Corn Flour as cocoyam? When I add it to sauces, it gives it a sort of sweet taste. Because of that 8/10 you gave it, I will try it with bitterleaf soup one day and hopefully confess.
The butter beans hack is awesome. Even our ordinary beans (peeled) and cooked with dry fish and other ukwa ingredients tastes like ukwa.
Yes o, we need to manage whatever we have where we live just to get even 10% of motherland taste.
Thanks for the alternatives you shared.
The pap hack is AMAZING! Thank you
Hi Flo, the tiny sesame seeds are called ridi (pronounced 'reedee') in many Plateau dialects or esa (pronounced eh sah) in Agila dialect in Benue state.
Esa resembles egusi when ground and made into soup but does not cake as much. It also has a mildly bitter taste so i would not pair it with bitter leaf. My mum in law makes the perfect Esa soup. As an alternative to Egusi I will give it a 6 over 10.
Thank you for such great video. When I run out of poundo flour, to get the texture of poundo I add a couple of tablespoons of potato flour to semolina.
Spinach is an alternative for garden egg leaf(akwukwo anara) for me.I always use when preparing my abacha.
Thanks so much. I always enjoy your cooking recipes.
My down-to-earth culinary genius! Thank you for all the hard work you put into making this video. You are too much!
I dunno how to take you for all the knowledge you keep sharing with us. You are commendable 👍😃
Thanks for sharing... the egusi part got me... I use kale leaf in place of ugh in okra or ogbono leaf... I give it a solid 9 out of 10...
A wonderful video, I must say. Very enlightening👍. I do not like egusi, so I'm definitely gonna be trying out the alternatives. I was quite surprised when you said your alternative for ugwu and green is spinach, cos spinach is actually my substitute for waterleaf. I use it with kale for making vegetable soup, so yummy (I kinda prefer it to the real thing). I also combine it with okazi to make afang soup😋. In fact, I give spinach as waterleaf alternative a 10/10.
Omg thank you so much for the alternatives. I use quaker oat and I like it. You mentioned almond as egwusi alternative. Am waiting for the video. Almond is my favorite nut. Am learning a lot from your vlog. Keep up the good work. Your the best.
It's just like you know what's going on in my head mainly in that nkwobi part like I've been looking for what or how it's gonna get thick and and looking for what to use as substitute for palm oil then you just came through with the video ! Thank you so much ma ❤
May your days be long for us Flo🙏🏼 . This your ministry is indeed a life saving one.
Whoever that gave this video a thumbs down,, hmmm, I don’t know what to tell you. Because it could be that you don’t understand what we go through up here.
Wow God bless you ma.. Where I live they have sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, I ve tried pumpkin seeds many times but I don’t like the taste but recently I washed it 4 times and I ground it with a water blender added red bell pepper and tomatoes nd onion to it and it taste just like egussi seed. I will try the sunflower seeds nd almonds next time . Nd yes I almost forgot to like the video until you said what are u waiting for , i then quickly hit the like button 🤣🤣 very funny
Thank you. :)
LOL @ washing it 4 times. Did that wash off the black colour? I was disappointed when I saw the black colour because lots of people recommended it. I am glad you found a way around it.
All Nigerian Recipes not much but you can wash it more than 4 times😄😄😄
I smiled all through while watching this video. It's so helpful and informative. God bless u ma'am. We appreciate u. Thanks for these tips.
Nice video, I never knew about baking soda and hot water as an alternative for potash. For the pumpkin seeds, I grind in the blender into a puree, once ground the color is not dark like that. Try it, I prefer the taste of pumpkin seeds than sunflower. Almond is a new one, thanks for all the tips! See you next timeeeeee....😄
i agree. I made pumpkin seed "egos" yesterday and sunflower see "egos" today. I think the pumpkin see egos has a better flavor profile. Although i used less orisiris (smoke turkey/fish) for the sunflower soup today.
Also the color does not show after the soup is done
Dea Afn yes very true, the color doesn't show and it doesn't have a bitter taste. 😊
I tried the sunflower seeds alternative and I wasn't disappointed at all. Thank you 😊
The akanu/ potash alternative is amazing!!! The eel is cool .. cauz here in Eastern Europe it's too expensive for me! Plus it's even rare!
Aunty Flo! Thank you so much ❤❤
This is such a helpful video. Well done Flo. I use kale or swiss chard as an alternative to ugwu. I also use basa fish as an alternative to catfish.
THANK YOU SOMUCH AUNTY FLO...YOUR A STAR AND I LOVE LOVE LOVE U...BLESSES TO YOU AND FAMILY❤
Hello @Flo Chinyere, lovely video.
For my little contribution....Kale is another alternative to Nigeria green/ ugu. It has a very very close texture to Nigeria green.
Spinach is rather a closer match to Nigeria garden egg leaves (akwukwo añara in Igbo). You can eat spinach raw too and both have same taste and texture.
Great value as usual. The second tip ( tomato in oil) is totally old school. It was the first thing my mom came up with as she’d had to improvise for A LOT of foods in the early ‘70s USA.
I’m looking for alternatives to catfish since going kosher. I must eschew fish that doesn’t have both fins and scales. So I can still enjoy mackerel ( titus for my Nigerian peeps🇳🇬), tuna and tilapia for example. But since catfish lacks scales, I’ve had to call it quits on my “point and kill” until further notice 😭. Same with the eels, fins but no scales=no go. Any ideas, cousins???
Am just washing this vedeo sis flo, I live in the middle East also, and this alternative is not new to me u.are absolutely right ma God bless u.
I like the baking soda part. I think I will try it. The oat powder in soups is very true. Even back in Nigeria, my mum stopped using cocoyam many years ago to reduce starch content in soups. I too have been using it for years for all soups that need thickening.
Ah aunty Flo, i miss my Naija food ooo. I had to look for the video. Thank you
This is an amazing video! You are so resourceful!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Luv this video aunty Flo, loved that you included your ratings as well. Thanks so much!!!
Awesome hacks and very helpful aunty Flo.Great video! Many many thanks
Aunty Flo, as usual thanks for sharing. So happy to find alternatives for my nigerian dishes 😘
God bless you ma for sharing. Getting the ingredients here in China is a whole story and when you find people who sell, the price is just unbelievable. I’ve tried the corn flour pap and it was on point👍🏾👍🏾. I’m more excited to try the sesame seeds and oatmeal alternatives😋😋
Wow! Thank you very much for taking the time to do your research and for bringing your findings to us. This is a wealth of knowledge. I am sure I will try some of these alternatives or share them with others. God bless you.
Very helpful Aunty Chi, God bless you
Thank you Flo
I love this video! Thank you so much! I didn't know about quaker oats in bitterleaf soup. I'll give it a try. I love almonds, so I'll like to try it in egusi soup, and see how it turns out. I usually use baby spinach in place of water leaf, and I use kale or mature spinach leaves in place of ugu leaves.
You can use basilikum leaf in place of scent leaf,it's taste the same and very nice
Wow, what an awesome alternatives, keep up the good work.
Thanks for this video it is an eye opener especially the palm oil alternative. Suggestion, why don't you try kale as alternative to ugwu it's so good and have similar texture, I haven't bought ugwu since I discovered it. We have cat fish in the UK though frozen but I enjoy using it a lot
Osili ora at it again!🙌🏾
Am so happy, for dis alternatives God bless you.
Wow, this is good. I love it
Nice one! For that abacha (hope that's the correct spelling) I do also use potatoe starch flour to give it that thicken effects.
The video I didn’t know existed!! Been dying to have pap since I live in Australia and I’m about to try this 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 Thank youuuu
You are the queen of all Nigerian recipes! Thanks for sharing!!!
I have used oats for years, and many other alternative u have here but i find Curly Kale as a good alternative for ugu and its great anti oxidant too so i use that a lot in my soups! Its found in local shops in Scotland where i live, please try it and lets know ur score for it?
Hey Flo! So I found out what Jamicans call callaloo leaves is actually greens in Nigeria! And some Asian markets have a variety of Naija ingredients too!
spicywinter kalaloo is efo tete
Nigerian never fail to surprise me. This woman is a chemist.
Can't help liking this video. So good
Sis Flo you too much. God bless you and increase your wisdom. Thanks for sharing
This is so helpful......thankyou so much.....I can't wait to do my abacha
Another gem video from my fav Naija food 🥘 guru. My Naija culinary beast always find a way in keeping Naija food alive no matter where you live in the world. Thanks 🙏🏾 💜🤘🏾
Greate alternatives.I'm defiantly going to try some of them,GOD bless you
I'm definitely trying the tatashe substitute. I have been using red bell pepper
You have been extreme helpful. Thank you.
Very helpful. Thanks Flo!
Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!😗 all the alternatives looks GOOD😍
Seriously very useful video. Thanks.
Thanks for this wonderful video, even in Nigeria we use Quaker oats as alternative to cocoyam.I live in Italy they have catfish which is known as il peace gatto.Check all those big store where they sellers fish in wholesale. I buy a carton of catfish for £19
Thank you Juliet. I will ask the fish mongers here for that kind of wholesale fish place.
Some use sesame seeds in place of egusi. I've seen it prepared in one or two blogs. Some others use groundnut which is readily available.
Wow! Thank you for that potash alternative of baking soda! I've been worried since they said we should stop consuming potash!
Wow!!!!you are wonderful Mami
Thanks for this video, I can find some of the indigenous foods online but not all. I remember you mentioning some these alternatives in some of your previous videos.
Great insight! Kale is a better alternative to ugh than spinach.
Thanks and God bless. We appreciate. Keep up the good work.
Thanks to you my friend that was educating I will try then out
Hi Flo, thanks for your joyful videos. What are your alternatives to egusi and ogbono as I live in Europe.
Pumpkin seed is dark but same colour as egusi in the pot, try it and you'll give it a 10
Very great information, thanks Aunty Flo
I just love your videos, always informative
To make edikikong...I used the combination of spinach and kale. ( more spinach than kale) I found it to work well. Or maybe I was just toooooo home sick 🤷🏽♀️😄
Tolzie O yea thats exactly what i use too. The combination gives me a perfect nigerian vegetable soup alternative. Of course with some dry fish from african shops. Have a nice day.
Thanks alot for this educative info. God bless you my Sister.
You are so much appreciated.
Thanks for the video, I actually have some of that palm oil saved from when I made the tomato stew from your video, it is so delicious...I can not wait to use it in my okra soup!
Mama Flo e di kwa tu much oooo. Thanks for this info.
Love you and your channel. Its really helpful.
Wow! Thanks for these Tips, so helpful!
Aunty Flo, am really enjoying your videos and learning new things each time. Some of your hacks I had already discovered some time back as a caterer and some are new. I use a food dehydrator overnight to dry my fish when smoked or dried fish is too expensive or the quality of what is available in London is not so good. Have also used it to dry cassava for abacha and the result has been good so far.
Keep up the good work, sis. God bless.
Before moving to an area that african foods are sold, I would use pancake mix to make my iyan
DiscoveringNatural try potato flakes,quite nice
wonders shall never end!!
What's iyan please?
The people disliking this video, I wonder what you want. Thanks Flo. You are amazing
Me too I've learnt to get used to spinach as an alternative for ugu
Nice substitutes. Glad I know much already cos I am always researching 😁. Tried the pumpkin seeds for egusi and it was good. Tried the almond seeds and it tasted too sweet. Like I added sugar...
Great....you can as well add chilly red powder into a hot groundnut oil ....and substitute it as palm oil....
Thank you. I am not even Nigerian. Bless you
Thanks for sharing this, ma'a'm.
Orange lentils as alternative for beans for akara (tastes different of course) but it can pass
Thank u Soo Soo much aunty this was very helpful my alternative to red oil I either use annato seeds fried in vegetable oil or blended in water then fried oil..... I use water cress kale dasheen leaves when making vegetable soup or endingkanko sorryooo I'm I'm still learning what I would like to know is there an alternative to potash as my Mr is from Edo n there is a soup I would like to try but never heard of potash n when I check Google it tells me is fertilizer helpooo
I also use paprika to replace Tatashe. It can be sweet though but like you I add chillies/peppers
Although lm on a strict keto diet l can cook for my igbo friends with alternative ingredients. Thank my sister WELL DONE👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
You are a friend indeed. Keep it up. :)
Hello, your face is so smooth and youthful. Gracia for all you have taught me.
I'm allergic to egusi (agushie to my fellow Ghanaians) but not to pumpkin seeds. Since the plants are all in the cucurbitae family, it does seem like a reasonable substitute! I might try it.
For me, i give the pap alternative(maizena) 2 points... It's more of custard to me to pap😉, others are good to go... Nice video!!!