After touring Igbo – Ora and speaking to parents of twins and some of the twins themselves as seen in our last two videos, Odunayo shows us how to prepare Ilasa and what ingredients are used to cook it, with the help of mama – our chef for the day.
“Once you cook and eat Ilasa, you will have twins,” says one woman
According to our research, the indegenes have claimed that the multiple births could be related to the eating habits of the women and men in Igbo – Ora which is their local delicacy Ilasa (okro leaves) soup with Amala (yam flour) or Eba.
“We’ll use pepper, melon, potassium, locust beans etc to cook Ilasa,” says mama
Igbo Ora in Oyo state is a town where there are unusually large number of twin births in Nigeria, which have earned the town the nickname Twin Capital of the World.
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I remembered as a child my mother used to cook ilasa but I can’t recognise
the leafs the way I can recognise ewedu in London market.
I love Odun!!! She is a well balanced girl, very professional and thorough
with her job, but at the same time a cool down home girl…I loved how she
accompanied Mama to the market, helped her pick the ingredients,carried the
bag(s), helped with the cooking and kicked her shoes off and ate with Mama
and the family…I hope and pray that God blesses Odun and her husband with
twins, triplets or even quadruplets!!! This 3part series has really been my
favorite, more NATIVE videos please…
you guys are making me cry I remember my mum cooking like the woman REST IN
POWER MUM.
Hope my future wife is watching.. She should start eating this everyday
???
I seriously miss naija
Looking at all those beautiful natural organic ingredients, explains all
the twins.
Odun is so free-spirited.. I love her vibe, I pray she gets twins
They don’t wash vegetable ? The whole thing looks dirty ! Poison in
disguise
love it! no internet lifestyle in that village natural and back to basics
I absolutely love Odun’s reporting. What a nice young lady she is. I see a
very bright future for her! Thanks for sharing :)