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Miyan Kuka

Name: Miyan Kuka
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 300g Beef Round; 1 bunch Molokhia; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 Chili pepper; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Beef Bone Broth Base; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1L Water

Soup

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Soup thickened with dried baobab leaf powder — from Niger and northern Nigeria.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Miyan kuka means 'baobab soup' in Hausa: dried, powdered baobab leaves thicken a soup of meat or dried fish. Greenish with a distinctive stretchiness, it's eaten with tuwo, a stiff porridge of millet or maize.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Under a big baobab tree in a Nigerien village, dried leaves are pounded into powder in a mortar and become a thick soup in a pot at home.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beef Round 300g
Molokhia 1 bunch
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Chili pepper 1
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Beef Bone Broth Base 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into bite-size pieces and simmer with the water and stock powder for 30 minutes.
Heat oil in a pot, sauté the chopped onion, tomato, and chili, and add to the beef broth.
Pick the molokhia leaves and chop finely.
Add to the soup and simmer 10 minutes, stirring.
When it thickens, season with salt.

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