Abacha
dish / dish-abacha
アバチャ
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Short definition
A dish from southeastern Nigeria also described as tapioca or African salad, with recorded use of utazi leaves.
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Abacha →includes→ utazi leaves
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Abacha includes utazi leavescontextual
Scope: The dish example and figure caption in the same paper.
Note: Detailed proportions and whether it is essential have not been checked.
Context: Shows an example of utazi leaves used in Abacha/African salad.
Limitations: The figure draws on cooking websites; this is not a primary investigation of detailed recipes.
Source: Impact of cooking methods on the chemical and antioxidant composition of some indigenous vegetables used in different food dishes in Southeast Nigeria (Ukom A; Albert M; Ojimelukwe P; Offia-Olua B; Nwanagba L et al., 2023) · full text checked
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dish-abacha —includes→ ingredient-utazi-leavesclaim: clm-abacha-includes-utazi / type: culinary / updated: 2026-08-31