Abacha Recipe (Nigerian African Salad with Ugba)

Ingredients

• 3 handfuls abacha (shredded dried cassava)
• 2 cups ugba (ukpaka, fermented oil bean seed)
• 30 cl red palm oil
• 2 tablespoons powdered potash (akanwu)
• Mackerel, dry fish or stockfish
• 1 large onion, diced, plus 1 medium onion, sliced in rings
• 4 tablespoons ground crayfish
• 2 stock cubes
• 1 teaspoon ground ehu seeds (calabash nutmeg)
• Ogiri or iru, traditional fermented seasoning
• Utazi leaves (Gongronema latifolium), sliced
• Ponmo or kanda (cow skin), cooked and diced
• Garden eggs and garden egg leaves, to serve
• Salt and dry pepper, to taste