Cullen skink Cullen skink Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie, but it may be prepared with any other undyed smoked haddock. This soup is a local speciality, from the town of Cullen in Moray, on the north-east coast of Scotland. The soup is often served as a starter at formal Scottish dinners. Cullen skink is widely served as an everyday dish across the northeast of Scotland. Local recipes for Cullen skink have several slight variations, such as the use of milk instead of water or the
Banga (soup) pepper or scotch bonnet, and salt. The soup is sometimes eaten with a cocoyam (taro) pudding called "kwacoco". Banga Soup is mostly prepared using fresh catfish (fresh fish Banga soup) dried/smoked fish or meat. The soup can also make a wonderfully delicious dish when made with the addition of Okra {vegetable}. Banga soup is ceremonially and most preferably eaten with a yellow thick starchy paste from cassava starch called "Usi" by the Urhobos as well as their Isoko and Okpe kinsmen. Non Urhobos prefer using Eba because eating "Oghwo" with "Usi" is an indigenous craft (cutting starch with the fingers