Creative-Sunday | I made "Okpa" Nigerian Bambara bean Pudding

Hello, creative hivers!

It's another beautiful Sunday, hope you are all having a relaxing weekend, on today's creative Sunday edition, I would love to share with you guys the making process of a Nigerian local snack known as "Okpa", it Is made from Bambara beans, I'm not sure if its English name, for the sake of this post, let's call it Bambara beans pudding since that is the clear description.

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Well, I just learned how to make this snack even though I've been buying and eating it for some years now, it was one of my favorites go-to snacks when I was in college, I often wondered how it was being made since it tasted different from the regular black eyes beans we have here. My pregnant friend motivated me to learn how to make okpa, she is in her early trimester and currently has cravings for " Okpa" Sadly we don't have it commonly sold in our area of residence which is the western part of Nigeria, while "Okpa" is common in the eastern and Southern part of Nigeria, it isn't here.

As a good friend, who also has experienced pregnancy cravings, I will need to create a post to narrate how my pregnancy cravings made me do, 🤣 Story for another day, So to help my friend, I volunteered to make it for her with her guidance, she currently can't stand the smell of booking food as well, things we go through as mothers to grow a little human inside of us, Mothers are superhumans, nothing less.

Without further ado, let's get started with the making process.

The ingredients needed to make "Okpa" are surprisingly minimal, here are the recipes

• Bambara beans
• Red oil
• 3 seasoning cubes
• salt to taste
• Water
• fresh pepper

PROCESS

*Prepare your ingredient by blending the pepper, also melt the seasoning cubes.

• Select bambara beans for stones, making sure it's stone free.

• Blend the Bambara beans using a dry mill blender, to fine powder form

• Put a pot of water on the fire to boil, we would use warm water to mix the powdered Bambara beans, adding the blended /ponded pepper, red oil, seasoning, and salt to taste while mixing, note that we don't want to go overboard with the seasoning and salt as the Bambara beans already Is tasty on its own.

• Make sure to mix well to a consistency not too thick or light , I used my hands to get better result, I made sure to wash my hands clean before doing this.

You could decide to add, egg or smoked fish, but my madam wanted hers plane.

• Next, using small nylon, I scooped and fill them up, also tied and put them in the pot of boiling water, leaving the beans to cook, it could take an hour, so just make sure you regularly check, till it's done.

And my "Okpa" (Bambara Beans pudding) is ready.

You should see the excitement in my soon-to-be mother friend's eyes, she had even already started devouring the Okpa from the pot🤣, I was glad to help make her day.

I uploaded the video making part, check it out, I hope you enjoy watching, and please don't forget to leave a comment, have you tasted okpa before, how do you prepare yours? Let me know what you think

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