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Grilled Chicken, Saute onions with spinach and rice

Rice can be cooked in different ways, for me "depending on my mood" :)

Ingredients: [serve one person]

2 pieces of chicken

1/2 onion

1 and half cup of rice

pepper

salt

maggie cubes

spices

vegetable oil

spinach (finely chopped) 

Directions:

for the grilled chicken:

for me I prefer to marinate the chicken for few hours, then parboil a little. Then add a little vegetable oil, [ add few spices if need be] depending on your oven, I grill between 100 - 150 degrees. Allow to grill to your desire.

For the rice and saute onions:

1) Wash the spinach, using food processor finely chop them.

2) Slice the onions, mix it up with the spinach, add a little maggie cube for few minutes. Then in a pan add 2 spoons of vegetable oil, when the oil is hot, add onions and spinach. Keep stirring for about 5 minutes and its ready to serve. 

3) Parboil the rice until half ready, then in a pan add vegetable oil [I don't really wait for the oil to be hot at this stage I proceed] add tomatoes, onions, spices, salt, pepper and fry for about 5 minutes depending on how well fried you want it to be.

4) When it is ready add the rice to the mixture, mix the rice and sauce together add a little water and spices if need be. Low the heat to allow the rice to steam from this point. [ depending on how the rice was parboiled, the rice should take about 15 minutes to get ready.

5) When its ready serve hot and enjoy with the saute onions. 

 BON APPETIT

British Breakfast

This breakfast is known as the British breakfast, anyone can add any twist to it.

Ingredients:
2 bacon
2 sausages
1 egg
2 slices of bread (toasted)
1 small baked beans
1/2 onion
pinch of salt
pepper
vegetable oil
1 tomato (optional)
2 mushrooms (optional)

Simple steps.
1) Open the baked beans in a pot, add onions, salt, pepper or maggie (optional) allow to cook for about 5 minutes.
2) Add a little vegetable oil in your frying pan and fry the sausage, bacon and egg separately.
3) Fry the egg how you want it, for me i did not mix the egg, i broke it in a plate and added, salt and pepper and fried it.
4) Toast the bread.
5) Serve in a plate. It could be taken with tea, hot chocolate or any juice of your choice or milk.
enjoy!!!!!

The First Baby shower!! I Ever Organised

We organised a surprise baby shower  for a friend recently, the decorations (made by my friends), food and some snacks were made by me. The mum to be was trilled and excited, I thought I would not be able to pull it off but i did and everyone was excited.

Here are some pictures of the food and some snacks...

 Fried rice and Jollof rice, made by Akumabee's plate

 The meat pie, cup cakes and brownies made by Akumabee's plate

The cake was made by cakes and shakes Manchester.

Everyone danced, we had some fun games like, (advice to the mum to be and wishes for the baby). We had a mum who just gave birth recently, to advice the mum to be on what to expect and so one...
We the friends defiantly learned a thing or two, she had wonderful friends who wanted her to smile. The dress, earring and shoe was a surprise as well.
I hope this will help first time organisers as well. I am not perfect but learning. I watched lots of videos on youtube and read about the whole thing to get ideas and it was helpful.

Edikaikong Soup

Vegetables are good for our health and those in Nigeria do enjoy this a lot, with a range of different traditional soups from various parts of the country. Todays focus would be on edikaikong soup, the two main green leaves in the soup are water leaves and Ugu or Pumpkin leaves as it is widely known, the soup is rich, because it contains vitamins. Different types of meat are used to cook the soup [depending on what type of meat you want to use], this soup is commonly known with the Akwa Ibom people of Nigeria. join me as I take you through this journey...

Ingredients:
water leaves
ugu
beef
dry fish
stock fish
palm oil
maggie
salt
pepper
cry fish

Directions:
Firstly, wash all vegetables very well, then slice them and set them aside. Wash the meat, stock fish, dried fish, place in the pot, spice it up and cook. When the meat is ready add other ingredients.

 Add crayfish, pepper, maggie, and stir. Allow to cook

 When it is well cooked add palm oil and allow to cook for few minutes. make sure that the mixture should not have a lot of water.

 When it is well cooked it should look like the picture above, then add the water leave first, this will enable the water leave to cook well and allow the water in it to come out.

 The picture above is the water leave, i got it frozen here, but the fresh one would be better. Some people use spinach in place of the water leaves.

 The picture above is the Ugu leave or Pumpkin leaves as it is widely known, i also got it frozen.

 The picture above shows the water leave cooking, after which the ugu will be added and allowed to cook until it is ready.

And the soup is ready, you could enjoy this soup with Eba, semovita, fufu, pounded yam. Try this simple steps and enjoy.

Unripe plantain

Unripe plantain is good for everyone especially ladies, it helps with iron in the body. There are different ways to eat it, it could be cooked as porridge, roasted, fired or boiled today i would be frying it. This could be considered a snack or brunch or breakfast option, follow me as i take you through this simple steps.

Ingredients:
1 Unripe plantain
1/2 bell peppers [any colour of your choice]
1 egg
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 onion

Directions:
Take the skin out, was the plantain and slice to any shape of your choice. Place the frying pan on the fire when it is hot salt the plantain and fry until golden brown, take down and set aside. wash the bell peppers, onion wash and slice, then break the egg add the salt and pepper. Add the oil to the frying pan add the sliced onions and bell peppers when it is fried to your desired choice add the egg and stir gently. Take down and add in the plate with the plantain, it could be taken with juice, milk or tea. Try this today and enjoy.

Rice and Cabbage Sauce

Rice is eaten by virtually everyone across the globe. While growing up I used to think that Nigerians love eating rice a lot, but when i started getting exposed to different people from various cultures I realised that rice is eaten by almost everyone.
We normally cook rice in different ways white rice and stew, Jollof rice, fried rice, Tuwon rice and most times this gets boring. I started looking for a different way to eat rice but with a more healthy option. Then I discovered the cabbage sauce that could be eaten with white rice, there is nothing special about it, some may like it others may not but I for one like it a lot.
Join me as i take you through how I prepare it…
You would need:
1 cabbage
2 carrots
1/2 pack of green beans
1/2 cup of peas
1 tomato
1 onion
4 maggie cubs
spices
1 mercurial fish
vegetable oil
curry
salt and pepper.

Directions:
Wash the cabbage and slice it [finely chopped], then wash the green beans, carrot and peas chop the green beans and carrot how you want it [your desired shape] set aside. Slice onion, wash the fish and cut it and spice it[ i used: salt, pepper, ginger, gallic, 1 maggie cube, ground coriander and ground nutmeg].
Allow to marinate for 5 minutes, then put some vegetable oil in the pan or pot [depending on what you want to use] when the oil is hot enough start frying, when it is well fried take out and set aside, using the same oil add the onions and some gallic.
Then add the chopped tomatoes and keep frying, then add the diced carrot, green beans and peas keep stirring allow to cook for 1 minute, add the maggie cubs, salt, pepper, curry and spices, allow to cook for another 5 minutes.
Reduce the heat and add the cabbage, add half cup of water allow to steam and cook for 10minutes this is to allow the cabbage to get soft [depending how you want it]. When it is ready add the fish and serve with the boiled rice and enjoy.

Serve hot and enjoy.

  

Happy Independence day, Nigeria!

Happy 54th Independence day Nigeria!! amidst the challenges  we face as a nation, we will stand strong, we will achieve, and we are great.
God bless the federal republic of Nigeria
God bless Nigerians.

And of course Happy new month food lovers, this month promises to be great.

Be creative [bread]

I saw this somewhere and I thought its good to give it a try, instead of eating bread the normal way its good to be creative and try different types of ways. 

Firstly, take out the edges of the bread as seen bellow

Then make the bread flat, as seen bellow

This was what i used for mine you can be creative and try different types of things. [ well i used, sardines, bell peppers, red, yellow and green, and seasoning] Yes this is the next step :) after which the bread will be rolled up.

and the egg will be rubbed on the bread, then you pre-heat the stove add a little vegetable oil in the frying pan and fry the bread and the end result...

Perfection, that is how it will be! i have tried this more than once now and it is really good. do try this over the weekend food lovers and you will be glad you did.

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND FOOD LOVERS.

Akara

Akara or beans cake commonly known by non Nigerians, high protein. made from beans known as kosai by the hausa people of Nigeria and Koose by the Ghanians. It is commonly taken as breakfast with pap, custard, or tea, any type of beans can be used for this. Follow me as i show you how to make this lovely breakfast choice.

Ingredient:
3 cups of beans
2 onions [ I love onions :)]
3 red bell peppers
4 long chili peppers
salt
spring onions [optional]
vegetable oil

Directions:
soak the beans for 3hours or more [some people soak and wash the beans over night but it can also be done on the same day if you use hot boiling water] this process is to help you take away the coat of the beans. When the beans is soft wash it until it looks like this...

Then wash the onions, bell peppers and chili peppers blend them together using your blender but make sure it is not too watery while blending. The chili peppers and red bell peppers will help the granted beans to be reddish in colour. When it is blended make sure it is soft and smooth, add salt and stir [the spring onions can be added now optional ]well while that is going on place the frying pan on the stove add vegetable oil [this would be a deep frying] and allow it to be hot. When it is hot start frying the akara make sure both sides should be golden brown. When ready serve hot and enjoy.

Home made cake

How i backed my cake :)

This cake finished immediately it came out of the oven really nice, dear food lovers try to give this a try and you will not regret it. I basically did not follow any measurement i just put the ingredient together and it came out well. But i will try to give an accurate measurement. Have a lovely weekend friends and try this over the weekend. :)

Ingredients:
3/4 butter unsalted
flour
4 eggs
suger [for me 3 tablespoon]
1 orange [squeezed and the zest]
1 teaspoon baking powder

Directions:
First put the 3/4 butter and sugar in a bowl mix well with a mixer, then add the egg gradually while you mix. Then add the orange juice and zest and mix gradually, finally add the flour and mix. Butter the pan that will be used, put the mixture in the pan and place it in an oven that was already heated 30minutes before baking. I bake at 150 degrees after few minutes its ready as you can see. serve and enjoy.

Egusi soup

Egusi soup is a Nigerian delicacy which is eaten in most part of the country (Nigeria) Egusi soup is made from melon seeds, grounded. They are different method of preparation, the soup contains leaf vegetables (it could be ugu, spinach, bitter leaf or okazi leaf), meat, dried fish and stock fish.  Egusi soup can be eaten with either pounded yam, amala, fufu or eba.

Ingredients:

2 cups of Egusi
Stock fish
1/2 kilo of beef
2 spoons of crayfish
2 spoons of palm oil
1 onion
seasoning
salt
pepper
3 maggie cubes
Ugu and spinach leaves

Directions:
wash the beef, season it and place it on the stove to cook, while it is cooking sock the stock fish in hot water, drain and add to the beef in the pot. When that is ready, place another clean pot on the stove add palm oil allow to get hot, then add onions, egusi seeds and start starring, then add crayfish and some maggie cubes, and keep starring try not to allow the egusi to burn. When it has fried well add the beef stock that was prepared earlier stair add some water and allow to cook.  While it is cooking season the soup by adding salt, pepper, spices (optional), after that allow to cook for like 20 minutes then add the washed and sliced ugu and spinach leaves, allow to steam for few minutes and your egusi soup is ready enjoy.

Moi Moi

Beans can be eaten in different ways today the main focus will be Moi Moi or as its called  bean pudding by some people. Come along with me as i show you how this is made.
Firstly, wash your beans

  The Next step is putting all ingredients together, onions, fresh peppers, sometimes bell peppers, seasoning, salt, palm oil or vegetable oil, cray fish, eggs, fish or anything that you want to put in the moi moi. Wash the bell peppers and onion, blend it together with the beans along side crayfish.

When it is blended it should be very soft and smooth, then add salt, dried pepper (optional), palm oil and seasoning. Mix ingredients well with the mixture. 

There are different ways of cooking it, for some they use white leather, others green

leaf (ewe eran, leaves), or cans of milk (peak milk) is used, others foil like i did.

Then add the eggs, fish and any other thing you want to add to the moi moi as seen in the picture bellow.

For other they fill the pot with water this allows the moi moi to steam and cook, the same is done for the leaves but today i will be baking my moi moi.

I placed the moi moi in the oven and set it at 60 I left it there to cook depending on the mixture, i like mine a little bit thick others like theirs watery, that will determine how long it stays in the pot or oven. as seen bellow the moi moi is ready and out of the oven.

When it is out of the oven you allow it to cool a little and serve.

 Some people eat moi moi with rice, alone, or with pap depending on what you want. enjoy!!!

Have a lovely day guys.

Happy new month

Welcome to the month of September well for me i call it the month of love, to all my beautiful food lovers and reader i say to you all may your dreams come true, may you experience good health, long life and protection and everything beautiful you wish yourselves. Happy New month #Believe #Receive #Achieve

Roasted catfish !!!!! Yummy

How i roast my catfish

 Firstly, I was the tomatoes, onions and pepper

 Then slice it

 Fry the and season (i used maggie, pepper, spices).

 Spice (Marinate) up the fish and place in the fridge for an hour (i used pepper, maggie, salt and vegetable oil)

 Fry the tomato sauce (how u want it to be)

 Bring out the marinated fish and add the tomato sauce on the fish

 Add the sauce on both sides

 then wrap the foil paper and place in the already heated oven, allow to roast for an hour...

and your roasted catfish is ready, its really nice i loved it, give it a try guys.