What’s The Difference Between Gravy, Sauce, Soup And Stew in Nigeria please?
I see on the Internet are very watery while our Nigerian white soup is thickened yet, we call it soup. Even afang soup, egusi soup and ogbono etc etc are thick, compared to what I see when I Google soup. Who can help?.
Answer to the difference between Nigerian soups stew sauce and gravy
In Nigeria We name depending on what it’s going to be served with not the consistency.
Nigerians say stew when it’s served with boiled rice and soup if it’s going to be eaten with swallows ( Fufu). When we cook to serve with yam, plantain etc. It’s called sauce. Nigerians are just unique like that. We have our own way of naming foods 😋.
When we thicken our sauces with flour, it’s called gravy. There are many gravy recipes on this blog like the shredded chicken gravy, beef gravy and so on. One important thing about oir Nigerian gravy is that we serve them with boiled rice.
White soup.comes.under soup because we serve it with swallows. Whether you vook your white soup thick or light, we call it soup as.long as it is going to be served with swallows. Pepper soup is a master that doesn’t fall under those categories. Pepper soup.is a category on her own with children like fish pepper soup, beef pepper soup, chicken pepper soup and so on. Even when we serve pepper soup with boiled rice, the name doesn’ t change to stew. It’ s still her own brand; pepper soup. She is a master in the game of Nigerian foods.
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STEW: a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan. Eg, Nigerin tomato stew falls under stew babe.
GRAVY: a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan, Most times thickened with some flour. Eg. The gravy we serve with rice or macaroni.
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Sauce: Liquid or semi liquid substance served with food to add flavour and moistnesss. Like roast plantain or yam with pepper sauce. That pepper fried with onion to serve with the roast plantain is an example of "sauce"
To me dey are all d same just depends on d chef dat prepared it. If u r comparing soup in 9ja n abroad dey are entirely diff but we all call dem soup. My def: soup is any liquid which may be clear or opaque with veg and served as a single meal for appetizers. Stew is slowly cooked thickend "soup" with meat or fish and eaten aside rice/bread etc. Gravy is the resultant liquid after roasting meat. Sauce is usually stir fried veggies with either meat or egg, contains less liquid than soup n cooks faster than stew. As the case may be they are all liquid used to accompany major meals or carbohydrates.
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