Hi, i want to know how different ppl react to this locust beans. D reason why I ask is because here in my school, so many ppl seems to hate it or is it just ego? It has even caused numerous fight among students here, just say something about it.

My goodness! dat stuff is disgusting!

Dat stuff is delicious. I somtimes over eat wen i add it to my meal. dont mind some babes na effzy.

Hmmm, more comments.

Good stuff for rice

I like it too. Especially in vegetable soups and akara. For other food, I just plain old curious to try new ways to accompany 'iru' with.
For people who disregard the smell or slime. . . Well, that's the old way of cooking without adding buillion cubes. It retains a natural flavour.

It just baffles me wen some ppl fight because of it

There is nothing wrong with locust beans,infact people in America & Europe eats it, I have a client that export it to USA,  It's rich in vitamine A,"bright eye",it's just that some Nigerians want to be unnecessarily Civilised

Locust beans is very good.i love it inside efo,ewedu n ila.haaa, i feel getin it nw

all dey pple forming i dey wonder o, iru was wot our grandmothers used to season their foods and we cant deny dat their food was tasty, ofcos by den there was no maggi, just native seasonings which different tribes av wot dey use and dey were healthly too, no special illness of any sort,

Abeg all those girls are just forming

lepasharon:

My goodness! dat stuff is disgusting!

Locust beans is palatble and highly medicinal in nature.Eating it is a matter of choice.

Nebulae:

I like it too. Especially in vegetable soups and akara. For other food, I just plain old curious to try new ways to accompany 'iru' with.
For people who disregard the smell or slime. . . Well, that's the old way of cooking without adding buillion cubes. It retains a natural flavour.

AKARA ke? Are you sure you know what 'akara' means? YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANYONE FRY AKARA WITH IRU (LOCUST BEAN)
, Then, you may find the smell offensive (though to me it's nice) but I reiterate that Iru is not slimey, No No!!!

Its an acquired taste.

tpia@:
Its an acquired taste.

thank you jare. if its not something i'm used to, why will i just instantly like it simply because people around me like it?

i love it and miss it so much.
ogiri in okro soup, ogbono soup with magala, tinko and bonga with nice yellow yam poundo .
thanks mom

dawadawa with miya yakua/kerikeshi da tuwo

love dawa dawa in pete or in Acha/goosegoose.

love mi the Tiv opeye (spell?) made from (locust beans) in a nice Tiv melon soup with dried green Pawpaw.
taste of bliss

Meals prepared with Locust beans added to it always have a significantly different and richer taste. My love for it actually increased when i was doing a programme in Ilorin and lived there for a year. The indigenes of that town sure knows how to eat locust beans and its actually very cheap too. Soups like Bitterleaf, Egusi, Efo riro, Vegetable, Ogbonor with Okro (very sweet), Ofe Ujuju, Ofe Ikaka (dried okro soup) and Palm oil jollof rice and many more all have a much better and richer taste when prepared with locust beans. Mind you there are about two types of locust beans. The one for Vegetable and Bitter leaf soup is different from the one used to prepare other types of meals. Whenever you want to buy, tell the seller to give you the type used for the food you want to prepare.

@Pretty Cindy-good piece on Iru you got here.

For nursing/lactating mothers, Iru is good! Reduces chances of convulsion in your babies. My baby had series of convulsive fits as a baby, but when my grandma asked that I include it in my diet, the fits disappeared. Apparently its medicinal.

@OP, for girls who quarrel about it, tell them to look up Parkia biglobosa on the internet.

meanwhile, there was a seasoning cube called dadawa cubes ones. . . isnt it locust beans seasoning? I dnt think one finds it around anymore. wonder what happened to it. . .

I never heard of it o! The type i know is the one women sell in ball or patties shape and black in colour but when you grind, the colour changes to light brown.
After googling, i discovered that it is used all over West Africa.

lepasharon: My goodness! dat stuff is disgusting!

eeeeee. Yeye! Ma je iru k'ara d o gba yagi yagi sio.