The Differences Between Nigerian SOUP and Nigerian STEW/SAUCE | Flo Chinyere
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This video is to clear the confusion in our Nigerian food nomenclature.
What to know why we call some of our stews soups? Then this video is for you.
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I am an American who has Igbo friends. When they say it's a soup and they show me how to eat it with my right hand .... I didn't ask questions .... I just grabbed a bowl and a plate of "swallow" and some water and prayed for my stomach not to burn too much!!! HAHAHA!!! I love them all but Egusi and pepper soup are my favorites!!! I watch your channel all of the time, it makes me sooooo hungry!! Keep up the good work Flo!!
Aprilluvv hahaaaaaa. My American friends also say a prayer before they eat my food
Aww April! We say jump, you ask how high! 🤗🤗🤗
lol @ pray for your stomach not to burn too much!
Thank you!
@@PamtheHypnotist Yes!!! I used to take Chocolate or Strawberry Milk with me so I could enjoy the soup. hahahaha
Rubbish.. An American who doesn't know her background..
Anty flo u r really a teacher. I don't know anyone in this UA-cam that break things down n teach and also communicate with audience the way you do. Like I always say, eji m gi ugwo mmanyi.😘😍👍
My darling thank you! 🤗🤗🤗
I haven't received your mail o, wetin dey happen?
She is a good teacher.
@@FloChinyere cool down for jesus, onye ji ugwo must pay😍
Sometimes,I forget to like,but when you say ''have you liked this video,have you?have you?'',I just smile and click 'like'' asap.
You explained it 100%.
Na so our mama teach us to call them.It's not our fault,but we are getting better everyday.
Flo chinyere is a teacher, chef , instructor, mathematician, life coach and the list goes on . Such a smart lady .
The truth is that most people in this world don't appreciate our culture. Rather than ask questions, they want you to align your culture to theirs thereby confusing themselves. Thank you Flo for taking out time to explain this.
Obincl K exactly! We don’t try to change them, but they always want to change us.
I don't care what it's called as long as it tastes good I'm eating it.
Yes o... me too
Your very correct with the explanation , we Nigerian have our way of naming meals and 😂we are comfortable with it
Yes o!
Yes ooo! My sister, make them leave our food naming for us. We understand ourselves hahahahahaha!
I give you 100%, It's not easy describing these concepts to others, but you did it well. Our naming comes from our ancestors.
All I can say is that we can't explain it better than you've done
Thanks Flo
I loved this video!!!! I have to say I came here worried because I didn’t think there was a “scientific “ breakdown For naming our food. Well done this alone should be a university lecture!!!
We like our own like that ooo,especially the TEA,BUNS,EGGROLL etc.i live in Germany and hot chocolate or whatever is still my tea oo...thankiooo🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Flo
I am a Nigerian that lives in South Africa and i recently started a fitness UA-cam channel too but right now am just giving you a big Southie Naija thumbs up 👍 👍🤛🤜 it’s so sad that you can’t see how big and red my thumbs are right now 😂😂😂 when i want to make Nigerian dishes yours is always the first to watch and now you have brought this again.......Much love sis
Aunty flo you deserve a stand up,clapping ovation for this video. So well explained. I have been asked several times by some of my oyinbo friends and family members here, whenever I cook my Nigerian food for them, I just find it so hard to explain and I end up saying Biko enjoy the food and don’t allow all these questions remove the yumminess 😆. After this video, I am so ready for them come Easter 😄👍💖
lol @ biko enjoy the food.
Nosa's guests have your heard? Come with your questions at Easter, she's ready for ya! 😂 Daalu. :)
Sierra Leonean checking in. My logic is: stew is something you eat with rice and soup you eat with fufu. Exceptions I’m aware of, groundnut soup (also sometimes called a stew) and pepper soup, not necessarily eaten with fufu. Ive heard both okra stew and okra soup used, I personally call it stew when I eat it with rice, soup when I eat with fufu. It’s also cooked differently depending on preference and the type of carbohydrate it’s eaten with.
Flo I personally think you have done a great job differentiating the difference between Nigerian stew and Nigerian sauce. I am not sure I would have done any better. Also if anyone is still having issues understanding the difference, just get you a Nigerian friend and go have a taste of both stew and sauce then you will understand. Thank you so much ❤️
Aunty Flo you are the best. I really like the way you finished this topic .
Well done Job. 💪👍
Thank you. :)
Sister Flo your explanations is as clear as water, very informative. And i hope you have succeeded in convincing them or clearing their doubts.
Nigerian Soups are for swallows or fufu, but still you will still see a Nigerian eating rice with okoro soup 🤣
Nigerian Stews or Sauce are for white boiled rice, boiled yam, boiled plantain, spaghetti or pasta.
Nigerian pepper soups are meant to be eaten on it's own or with with boiled rice, yam, Nigerian yam! oo not American yam, and also with unripe plantain.Never use the Nigerian pepper soups or swallows 😃 except it is ofe nsala 😉
Thank you Flo, you're so good with all your explanations. Me too I can't imagine eating Ofeakwu with swallow and was actually shocked when I found out that some tribes use it to eat swallow. Anyway to each their own o
Egusi and boiled yam/white rice is not alien to Nigerians.
At least I know us Yoruba folk do that combo well.
I think your explanation made sense.
Just to add, anything tomato based thing for spaghetti I think we call sauce.
As long as we Nigerians love and understand the rest of the world will have to adapt. Shikena
I don't think there is a better way to explain it rather than what you just explained, my own little contribution sauce is what you can make in few minutes but stew takes longer time to cook if that make sense
I love Nigerians when it comes to food. We are creative when it comes to combination of food. Soup , sauce or stew ,the most important thing is that it is going down the throat.
Thank you so much for this clarification
Lol....I saw the term soup and just said...oh that's what you call it in your culture 🤔....I wonder what's a soup....lol....thanks for the education on Nigerian cuisine Flo. 👌🏾👍🏾. In Jamaica 🇯🇲 we call hot beverages either coffee or tea. Coffee is coffee and tea can be everything else but we know the difference even though we call everything else tea.
Wow, that's good to know that that "tea" for every other hot beverage started a long time ago, even before our brothers and sisters went to Jamaica. Thanks Mona Lisa.
Thats correct, even "stew peas" its not just red peas in there, we have a variety of meat n then the rest of the world say red beans lol. No! It's peas for us jamaicans lol
We are so special. We don’t move with the crowd 😅😅 . I get a lot of those comments too. Thank you so much for addressing this issue.
One thing I love about Nigerians is that they stand their ground even if the whole world says otherwise. I didn’t watch the initial video but from the picture, I will call it e.g kale stew etc but your explanation also makes sense to me since it makes sense to you.
Anuty Flo, you're just too much. You're a good teacher, breaking it down as much as possible. I hope they understood it well. I really enjoyed watching this video.
You are a good teacher. All your non Nigerian subscribers will now have a good understanding of why Nigerian foods have the names they do.
Madam, am impressed, high time you are a regular Voice on Food Network, Biko. I can forward this to others 😊. God bless always.
Hi Sis Flo, you are a good instructor. I hope most people will not be confuse anymore.
Happy new month to my mentor and teacher, may God answer all your secret prayers in this month of March amen.
Your explanation is very simplified and well taken.
I love you for this break down, you are really a great teacher, this is helpful
You’re so intelligent Flo.... your videos are always a experience
You are the best. I don’t see why there is a wahala... you are giving the recipe. Just enjoy the dish, people call the same thing differently all the time! Thanks for taking the time and continue call tea tea! When I go to my Nigerian friends I adapt ❤️
Good morning, greetings to you and your family. I alway watch your on UA-cam and l likes the way you explain things to people who are not lgbo people. IGBO people don't use tomatoes to cook soup, lgbo women use tomatoes to make stew not soup, in the olden days,, lgbo women don't fry the soup they are making because don't hold together at all but these day some of these young women who don't know how to cook are now frying very thing the put on top of a stove because th don't know the difference. They mother's should teach them well okay. You Mrs .Florence have said a lot. I really appreciate you. I am a Nigerian but l leave in America. Take care. Mercy E.Awah.
So happy my question was answered. In my home country traditionally we don’t put meat or fish in vegetable stew/soup, though now due to globalization some people in cities are adding fish in cassava vegetable stew. Thanks again for educating us about Nigerian food soups/stews/sauces.
Just an addition. We add meat/fish/chicken to our vegetable soups because it would have little to no taste or better put, it won't have the taste we are used to, to be able to eat it with swallow.
Sis Chinyere, you killed it all. It's our food naming not their own. We understand ourselves 😄😄😄😄!
Your explanation was quite simple & clear though. Well done.
But you don't want to help me ooo 😭😭😭...
Soups need swallow as their friend. Pepper soup just drink 'am. Stews take time to cook, lots of labour of love in them, their friend is rice. Sauces are sharp sharp "stews". Okra soup and rice is a no for me too. Thank you mum Flo!
your Explanation is 💯 on point 👍 ... I couldn't explain as nice as you did when I was to talk about nigerian food perception to my coursemates back then in Croatia
I think if it does not contain blended tomatoes pury is called sauce. Aunty Flo is a good teacher sha.
Aunty Flo the great! I just love your videos. When the picture of the hot chocolate and tea came up; I immediately said” Lipton” 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Well said Flo. You describe and convince them perfectly well.
Just stumbled on your page this morning and learnt a lot already. Your explanations 👌🏻💯 God less you.
Yes we are special people you explained it clearly well done 😊
Dear Flo, you are a great cook. Keep cooking. Please send me some of the leaves for wrapping moi moi. It is not available where I live.
My grandma used to make garden egg mixed with ugba and we eat that with boiled yam, sweet yam or boiled cocoyam
You did an amazing job here.
Fantastic response to the questions 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🤛🏽
Wow, awesome channel. Thanks for all this explanation. American has their own soups, which is mainly in cans, containing potatoes, carrots and some beef all mix together in watery form, no hot peppers. That American soup.
All this question for one person, honestly Anuty flo you really explained deep, we Nigerians are special with our special meal.
Chai Aunty you have energy oo
My Ghana friend has always ask me the difference between our Nigerian stew and soup.you explain it better I will share this video to her,our stew does not require thickener but some soup does.
We love it sis
Ur videos & teaching r always on point. I learn from it all d time. Thanks for sharing.
Madramiya my Flowing Flo, I must confess, I have been making chicken pie and all the pies with butter after baking it comes out to be like OKWUTE (STONE)🤷♂️ but after watching Flo video on how to bake chicken pie, I just finished baking my own chicken pie, Madramiya it's so soft and yummy. You can beat it until you try it. The use of Margarine makes me professional BAKER. 2MILLION GBOZA for Flo👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊+
To eat rice u cook it with cent leaf , to eat swallow we cook it with better leaf . That's for d banga
Naomi but even with that bitter leaf eh, I can't, I just kent! 😂
@@FloChinyere 😃😃
You are very correct the way u explain the difference between stew and source.👌👌
Excellent video editing. You made so much efforts to explain our Nigerian meals. Thank you.
I alws wonder d same abt Naija soups. Dey look soo thick like stew. In Ghana our soups are watery n very tasty. Tnx 4 d clarity
Buh ur banga stew is prepared as watery soup in Ghana n as it thickens we use it in eating rice n yam
There is no other better explanation other than this about our indigenous foods, Flo i remain loyal to ur teachings all the way 😘👍💕💞
Aww thank you. The stew/sauce one was really a challenge for me. :)
Waoo my beautiful sister FLO, I am loving you more and more, the way you explain everything to non NIGERIANS that don't understand our food. Well done you have done very well.
I like this explanation, I can't use ofe akwu to eat swallow at all, all our meal must come with meat or fish, how can I eat food without meat or fish inside, mbanu 😆 biko stew is for rice while sauce is for boiled yam, plantain like egg sauce apart from oyibo sauce which we use for rice, daalu Nne, you really make sense.
👏👏explanation: 👩🎓pass with distinction✔💯👍
Chaaiii, Jamb and WAEC questions, let me keep watching
Thank you sis for taking your time to explained it to all. There's a difference between stew, sauce, and vegetable soup, a lot of people don't know that. We Nigerians we use stew to eat rice, sauce to eat anything that you want, and vegetable soup for fufu. She did fantastic job in going into deep details of all that. Anyway, thank you once again for your explanation 👌👍👏🏿🙌
Thank you. :)
@@FloChinyere Always welcome anytime sis!
All I did throughout this video session was nod to every statement. Thank you for the break down 👍
You made absolute sense ma. Welldone!💪
Stews are common to we Nigerians, I totally Concur with your Definition of Sauce and Stews.
Non of our Stews requires a thickner of any Sort, and the way of preparation is totally different .
Exactly stews don't need thickner . But anyone that has thickner we call it source
Yes that's a great distinguishing factor. In stews, the main ingredient thickens the stew but in most sauces, you need a thickener. Ezinne you no chop your school fees! 🙌🙌🙌
Okay, lemme say my own:
Stews.... we use big pot to make it in large quantity and it lasts for days and okay for everyone.
Sauces..... we use small pot or pans to make them in small quantity and they don't remain for people that are not at home at the time the sauce is made 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️.
Please nobody should come for me,there is corona virus in Italy.
@@FloChinyere 😂 I no chop am ooh
@@IjeomaGloriaAnopueme 😂😂 Come back here
You have explained it so well to them.
Soup o! Stew o! All join. Luv u for explaining sis Flo❤
Haahaa we are blessed and special sis. Well described. Kpomkwem👏👏👏👏
You gave a perfect explanation on this absolutely nothing more to add
Bravo!! Best explanation so far
Very well explained my sister. Thanks
Flo nwannem ooo, you are there 👏so interesting and your explanation is so clear. Thank you so much my darling sister 💕💕💕💕.
We're different from the rest of the world when it comes to names 😂😂
Wow thanks for the clarification I was puzzled about that
This cd make a good documentary for black history!
Good job Flo 👏👏👏
Wow! I never thought of this, thank you so much for this.
You have said it all, stew takes more in preparation and sauce is just anyhow thing.
From my own perspective what we call Soup are normally prepared from our local ingredients like ogbono, fermented melon, egusi etc.
I guess why they call our ofeakwu banga because it's made from same palm fruit.
You explained it and passed with distinction 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I love the way you teach ma'am
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 wow you nailed it, when I saw the title I was wondering how the video will go but you broke it down really nice and simple. Weldone!!!
Thank you Brigee! It was fun trying to explain these. You know as Nigerians, we are used to calling them these.
Flo you too much, you are very intelligent. Thanks for explaining to them.
Good comments. Please aunty Flo can you show us how to make Nigerian party saladi.
yes Aunty Flo, our tomato stew sweet, we put our heart and soul when cooking it, it means a lot to us
Yes o. Tomato Stew is not joking sturvs. LOL
We remain Nigerians and proud of how we call our food and enjoy it as such
you are wierd
Wow......this video is the Best. U really explained it well
U did justice to the stew and sauce cos no other way explains it better tx flo
Thanks you, this is useful, cos I got lot of arguement from friend. We are special ooo jare
Madam Flo I salute 🙋🏾♂️
Those ones saying the names should be changed is just itk.
We don't change name for there food but they want to change our own.hahahaha
Oh my God 😂! I had to pause this video to like and comment. You finished me at 6.30. See how you infused your famous "Have you liked this video yet? Have you? Have you?" I was not expecting it. I've liked it o 😁😂.
Well said chi you are so right in your explanation
i love this. very fascinating. also, the egg roll you guys have reminds me of our version of it, in the philippines we call it kwek-kwek. its quail or chicken egg dipped in batter and fried. haha
I think the better answer about why Nigerians call their sauses soup is bcos,
1. Well I think soups in Nigeria a 2 kinds as she says. But all are without tomatoes. Once there is a tomatoe in it, it is called stew.
2. Soups are without tomatoes in Nigeria.
Flo, your expectations are correct 👍
yessoo Nne we are unique in our way . Nne dalu for the teaching.
Stew is fried tomatoes while soups are our indigenous foods like Egusi soup, Ogbono soup, Bitter leaf soup, Oha soup. It will be an insult to Nigerians if you label our Ogbono, Bitter leaf or Egusi as "stew."
Please call your food stew in your country but don't dare call our Egusi "Stew." Egusi, Ogbono & co are called soup not stew.
You did an excellent job here
Choi aunty Flo, you have energy to explain oo. I laughed hard as I watched, these questions of naming food is just as similar to asking us why we have so many native languages. We are distinct and that’s it. Have we ever asked why they name their food they way they do? If you want Nigerian cuisine, you must call it the real name to be served the real thing. Vegetable without edible obstacle is simply salad.
We don’t cook without obstacles 👌 finish..
Thank you for your explanation on it ma, weldone.
lol no be fight. 😂😂😂 I see how this can be confusing to non-Nigerians. Food names and food combos will always be at the top of the culture shocks I experienced as moved from country to country. I asked questions too because I am a curious mind.
So these questions may sound like a no-brainer to us because we grew up with these meals but the questions are valid. I enjoy explaining these to those who genuinely want to learn about these things just like I break down the recipes for those who want to learn.
People are clowning🤣🤣..A country with a population of over 200million people should change the name of their meals to suit a more Westernised populace. Akuko!!!!Thank you Aunty Flo for dissecting this topic very well🙌🏽🙌🏽and by the way your skin is popping seriously❤️
Nwa teacher you have said it all ooh well done
Well explained. Let them chill because Nigerian words are making the dictionary and more will. I have even indulged my children to some of these ones you mentioned especially 'Tea'. I think it the yorubas that call everything stew. Meanwhile, whoever didn't add meat in their Nigerian soup can not just afford it. I think sauce can be said to be without tomatoes. I so love the way you explained all. Had a good laugh watching. 👋👋👋
Sauces are roughly blended, stews are mostly grinded smooth.
Sauces are quick fixes, stews take time to prepare.
That’s it.