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Mucuna flagellipes

Mucuna flagellipes is a tropical rainforest vine belonging to the legume family (Fabaceae), well known across Nigeria for its edible seeds, which are commonly processed into a traditional soup thickener. Its common names include ox-eye bean, hamburger seed, hamburger bean, sea bean, donkey eye, and velvet bean.

Do you know this soup thickner? Share your experience cooking with it.

Why do I need my soup to be thick anyway.. we love them watery

Rapmoney:
Mucuna flagellipes

Mucuna flagellipes is a tropical rainforest vine belonging to the legume family (Fabaceae), well known across Nigeria for its edible seeds, which are commonly processed into a traditional soup thickener. Its common names include ox-eye bean, hamburger seed, hamburger bean, sea bean, donkey eye, and velvet bean.

Do you know this soup thickner? Share your experience cooking with it.

Does it thicken fruit juice?

How do we get this wonderful but medicinal cooking ingredient around us now? And how much is it sold in the market today? How does one go into the farming if he wishes to produce in an industrial scale?

Shey no be that seed wey dey hurt body if rubbed against floor be that?

From where I come from, we don't eat this o. We have it in abundance but we the children at the time used it for game called "Arin".

The name is "agbarin" from my own part of Yoruba.

This is nostalgic.

Drsnives:
Why do I need my soup to be thick anyway.. we love them watery

Love for Watery soup? God forbid

I know this soup thickner

I ate shege comot for this Ukpo. You have to roast it before cracking the shell. Otherwise, it wouldn't separate from the fruit.
It was the cheapest food we could afford during our extremely poor state.

I am still grateful to God for this blessing.

This soup thickner is very delicious.
There is a guarantee that you must add water to your soup while warming it in the morning. The older the soup last, the sweeter it gets with this seed. After cocoa yam this is the commonest soup thickner I knew while growing up in those days.
My grandmother would instruct us to boil and pound it before her return from the market. It doesn't even ask for much ingredients to make your soup sweet. Mmmh, those good old days.

Rapmoney:
Mucuna flagellipes

Mucuna flagellipes is a tropical rainforest vine belonging to the legume family (Fabaceae), well known across Nigeria for its edible seeds, which are commonly processed into a traditional soup thickener. Its common names include ox-eye bean, hamburger seed, hamburger bean, sea bean, donkey eye, and velvet bean.

Do you know this soup thickner? Share your experience cooking with it.

Is it same as achi?

You haven't told us the health benefits of the seed.

Abeg I need am..after soup thick I add water again to make am plenty

Drsnives:
Why do I need my soup to be thick anyway.. we love them watery

Are you Ghanian...?


@ topic I used to see this as a kid. I always wondered what it was used for. I never knew it was used to cook.


I used to see kids playing with it!

The best soup with stock fish and bush meat

Ibaba just like garri is a life saver in every home, put enough water into the pot of soup add ibaba it and the soup go reach everybody.
It will even make the soup more thicker the next day, that means you go add more water while warming the soup

Our people use it more often in preparing our traditional Annang native soup with (oha) mkpafere

Dreal1247:
How do we get this wonderful but medicinal cooking ingredient around us now? And how much is it sold in the market today? How does one go into the farming if he wishes to produce in an industrial scale?

They are not costly. You can get them from the market where they sell soup ingredients.

Not at all. It's one of the best soup ingredients in South East

Godsown0:
Shey no be that seed wey dey hurt body if rubbed against floor be that?

Drsnives:
Why do I need my soup to be thick anyway.. we love them watery

You and who love them watery? Abeg speak for ya self abeg, imagine eating watery okra soup, which kind punishment be that one? 😂

Godsown0:
Shey no be that seed wey dey hurt body if rubbed against floor be that?

You got it BUT not really the one you think.
They are similar but this one is very big. The name of that one is Agbara, this one is Ụgboʻ, both of them scratches.

brain54:
Are you Ghanian...?


@ topic I used to see this as a kid. I always wondered what it was used for. I never knew it was used to cook.


I used to see kids playing with it!

We used it for a beautiful game. I never knew it was edible

Remember it's not for pepper and oil soup

We call it Ukpotoro. Those days my mum will either use Ofo or Ukpo

ceeceeuwa:
Is it same as achi?

You haven't told us the health benefits of the seed.

Odi egwu! We all know what it is. But what is the reason for telling us about what we already know? Without telling us the medicinal benefit..

ceeceeuwa:
Is it same as achi?

You haven't told us the health benefits of the seed.

No, it is not. Achi is different.

Oya tell us the medicinal benefit of this fruit or vegetable.




I am waiting!!.........

Jokejoke
Ours elders in Yoruba land
Use it to play ayo

Na Ngwa people's delicacy be this. And their soups are usually watery.

We are loosing touch of some of these good food ingredients because we are turning to Noodles, Maggi this and that, sachet spieces etc etc.
My mum used to cook with this decades ago (Ibaba) in ibibio.
Those days you could eat very delicious meals made from home grown crops and only natural ingredients without any artificial seasonings.

AllBlack:
Love for Watery soup? God forbid

nothing to forbid here not all soup should be thick, example is pepper soup should that be thick too

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Na Ngwa people's delicacy be this. And their soups are usually watery.

Say what you know.. it's our plant but not watery soup.

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